Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 48
As a sidebar, did you consult with Ringling Brothers?… Read More
As a sidebar, did you consult with Ringling Brothers?… Read More
Oh yes. Read More
What times were you at Hopkins?… Read More
So what was the turning, were you happy at John Hopkins?… Read More
What were the years, ’66 or … Ooh, let’s see, I graduated in 1965. I was at Angel for about two years, and so that would’ve been ’67. And then I went to National Zoo at 1972, so it’s about five years there, right around the time of 1970s, early… Read More
Well, the things I think I learned from Hopkins was some surgery skills, I continued, you know, working with human surgeons on certain cases, and things, they were doing radiology, I think I developed an appreciation and hopefully some expertise in that, because I was helping with some of the… Read More
Had gleaning experience from that you could transfer over?… Read More
What kind of things were you …… Read More
So you were, almost became the defacto part-time veterinarian for the zoo?… Read More
And when you had this opportunity to, did you bring things from Johns Hopkins that you had learned to your exotic animal practice, so to speak, as you were doing it?… Read More
I was, yeah. Basically I was Baltimore Zoo’s veterinarian. While you’re still doing your full-time job. Right. Read More
he never showed up again. Yeah, when I was there I used M99 for the first time, which I … And unfortunately I killed a waterbuck, and the first time I used Xylazine, you know, I lost an animal. But that was just the way it was when we started… Read More
And so that was some of the work that I did while I was still at Hopkins. Read More
Yeah, that’ll be fine, you know, no problem.” I hung up at the phone, I’d went to the mountain, I’d gotten the information, and so I go back, give it the drug, animal went down, replaced the uterus, and having a hard time getting it totally in. And so I… Read More
But you, when you were doing the pygmy hippo work, you were still at the — John Hopkins. at Johns Hopkins, yeah. Read More
And was the part-time veterinarian, you said you were alone, wasn’t he assisting in the case?… Read More
I said, “I have no idea, you know what we should do.” He said, “Why don’t you call Clint Gray at the National Zoo?… Read More
Why don’t you add about 250 milligrams of promazine too?… Read More
They have pygmy hippos.” And I said, “Gee, okay, well, gee.” So with trembling hands, I picked up the phone to talk to Clint Gray and said, you know, I introduced myself, I said, “Clint, I’ve got this pygmy hippo that prolapsed its uterus and it looks like I’ve gotta… Read More
They were just calling maybe a day or two a week and he’d — Now, did you meet Clint Gray at this initial meeting when you were at John Hopkins, when you were in the Department of Radiology, or when you were at the zoo?… Read More