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Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 116

I think just being hands-on and making a difference, actually, probably that was at Baltimore … For the amount of effort and things you did, I got the biggest reward out of improving the animal collection. When I got to national, they had some of the preventative medicines, those programs… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 112

So that was kind of it. We kind of had a newsletter and he, through the Smithsonian, was able to get the postage, and we had a kind of a newsletter long before we had a journal. And that was kind of just a informal, “Well gosh, I did this… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 111

I think the communication between veterinarians in the beginning was mainly through personal contacts. We had phone numbers of the other six or seven people that, you know, that we would talk to. We didn’t do a lot of publishing, although I published my first couple of papers when I… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 113

Was it difficult juggling your work at Johns Hopkins and the zoo when you were there?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 108

And then it was doing all right and then crashed again with the hip joint, filled up with pus and I tapped it, and got out and I said, “Okay, I need some help.” So I called the Children’s Hospital over in Washington DC, and talked, tried to get somebody… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 110

Were some of the procedures you were doing in Baltimore, were they cutting edge in any way, because maybe they were first time, and were you able then to share them with the other veterinarians, or were they sharing things with you that were then helping you?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 109

And okay, I’ll be over there in 15 minutes.” So he came over and it was the Head of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, and he looked at it, and he said, “Well, what we gotta do is just open up the joints, and let ’em drain.” So he just… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 105

I would say bringing them in as collaborators, because you have to direct them. You know, if somebody comes in, and thinks they’re gonna do all this stuff, and do all these things and do, I said, “We can’t do that on this animal. You know, it isn’t gonna work. Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 106

We had … At the Baltimore Zoo, there was this black leopard that was having seizures, and so they got it into a crate, and brought it down into the animal holding area, so I’m sitting down there, and here is a crate with an opening about this big, with… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 107

Then I have another great story of … When I was at the National Zoo, we had this orangutan that was born, and orangutans, you know, can get septic from umbilical infections, and this one had a swollen elbow joint, and we had some pus, and you know, it wasn’t… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 103

Were at the time when you were in Baltimore, were were vets, how many vets were in the zoos that were part-time as you were or full-time?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 102

Not much, we kind of just, we were flying by what we were doing, and we lost some animals and I’m … What I told my interns and residents and associates that I’ve had, I said, “You know, I made a lot of mistakes, and it’s my job to make… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 104

Well now this is a story that I’m not sure that I can verify, but this is kind of the story that as I remember it, ’cause when I got to National Zoo, Clint Gray and I sat around one morning drinking coffee and just talking, trying to figure out… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 100

Now did you have a lot of people that you could lean on then?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 101

You mentioned Clint Gray for advice on these anesthesias?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 97

And so we started looking at, well what in the world are we gonna do, how are we gonna move an elephant?… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 98

So I was reading the brochure on M99, which I told you was kind of bogus and stuff, but that was all we had. There was a few people with a little bit of experience with M99 in elephants, Clint Gray, my mentor, was one of the first persons I… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 96

Well, the classic statement is half vast. It was a little bit of emphasis on the pronunciation of that. Well, that was where I first used M99. It was the first time I’d done a lot of primate anesthesia, and that was the first time I used M99 on an… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 99

They’re trumpeting, they’re running around the place. I hand drawn the syringe, I say, “Here, go in and give the reversal.” Of course he didn’t do it. We had to dart the reversal, and the elephant got up in about 15 minutes, and there was celebration by the other elephants,… Read More

Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 94

And so he did that at Phoenix, and they were calling me, and he said, “My gosh, he’s vomiting, he’s vomiting, and then he’s gonna eat it. So we’ve been washing it all out of the …” I said, “No, wait, wait, that’s part of his physique, you know, part… Read More

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