and he’s doing a lot of that, a lot of that drugs, a lot of the anesthesia studies right now are be done in wildlife, and I’m reviewing a paper right now of one in whitetail deer. But there’s a few studies that are going on. As I say, we… Read More
Are zoos doing it in research, or is it just, you’ve mentioned only one company doing certain things with certain drugs?… Read More
Any recommendations or words of advice that you’d give to the next generation of, and you’ve done a lot of it quite honestly, but are there any other specific words of advice that you’d give to the next generation of veterinarians?… Read More
Who is, where is the anesthesia research happening now?… Read More
You talked about, you know, we’ll get better and better. Read More
Who’s doing it?… Read More
You’re aware the pulse oximeter?… Read More
Absolutely. We can do safer and safer anesthesia, and that comes through better monitoring. Like the pulse oximeter was our major, major breakthrough in allowing us to monitor animal anesthesia. Read More
That’s a little clip they put on your finger, your thumb when you’re in the hospital, and it measures your hemoglobin oxygen saturation. And so that’s, when that goes bad, everything else kind of cascades afterwards. And I remember one of the things, a couple of things that Clint Gray’s… Read More
And speaking of that then, are there new frontiers to be achieved in anesthesia?… Read More
Well I go back to anesthesia, that allows you to do both better diagnosis, and better treatment. So you know, I sound like a broken record, I know, but our diagnostic modalities have improved with the digital x-ray, with laparoscopy, with better analysis of blood and tissue, and things like… Read More
Where would you say the greatest changes occurred, in diagnosis or in treatment?… Read More
Well it’s like we talked about last night, I think during the first part when we started there, and brought in Dick Montale, and David Wilt, and, you know, we had O’Brien collaborating with us. I think those were the, what you were just phrased as the golden years, and… Read More
Do you feel you were part of the golden age at the National Zoo?… Read More
I mean many people are gonna maybe disagree with me but … But it’s your interview. Yeah. In your career you’ve seen a lot of changes in veterinary medicine. Read More
Some good, some bad, all good?… Read More
I think generally it’s good. I mean I’m not gonna be totally negative about, you know, what’s happened during my tenure. No, we’re getting better zoos, we’re getting better exhibits, we’re getting better animal care, we’re getting better nutrition, we’re getting, I think, better support from the public, you know,… Read More
And many times I can say maybe, but a lot of times I say “I don’t know how I’d use that information.” Now maybe I’m shortsighted and that, but you know, that’s kind of the way I’d answer that question. Read More
And the classic thing, does it make me a better veterinarian to know what this person just published?… Read More
Have you seen zoos change since you began your career?… Read More