Well, it’s my philosophy that it was my job to make sure the animals were in good health, and that the situation they were displayed in was not gonna be harmful to them, or the people that were viewing them. And I usually was able to communicate that to the… Read More
Well, I think the initial parts, and … Before we started answering questions of just not knowing, and the information not being there, and we know that it should be there, and that’s I think what stimulated me to go ahead, and try to find some answers, and ask people,… Read More
And whether it was a personnel, or an animal, or you know, issues, but how did you deal with the negative?… Read More
Well I always thought that my job was better than working, so that was kind of the bottom line, that kind of was the thread to do it. I had certain outlets, and played contact sports, as I mentioned before, and took out some of my frustrations on that aspect. Read More
What were some of the frustrating times, as in being a veterinarian?… Read More
Over the years, you’ve had positive and negatives in your career, but how did you philosophically deal with the negative things?… Read More
What was your philosophy?… Read More
Again, I keep going back to anesthesia, the ability to do that, the evolution of new drugs, especially worming drugs that have greatly enhanced, you know, our preventive medicine, but unfortunately now many of the parasites are becoming resistant to it, so we have to go to other ways of… Read More
I think it was my mentors at Angel Memorial that gave me, you know, the founded thing of good physical diagnosis, you know, surgery, kind of the work ethic, that I developed there. So I would have to go back to my internship, and the time I spent there. Read More
In zoos you mean?… Read More
During your career, what would you consider to be some major, major events, that affected animal care?… Read More
Well, as I’ve stated before, many times, I think the important part of research that I’m interested in is the clinically applicable research, esoteric research maybe, you know, but that’s not, I’m not gonna be going in for that. I mean that’s to answer some theory that I can’t in… Read More
What professionals did you learn from it, who had the most influence on you in your career?… Read More
Mark, do you need water?… Read More
You know, you got any experience or who else should I call?” Or, you know. So it still, I think, hasn’t fully gotten into the internet age in my experience, of course I just barely got a cell phone after a year, so I may not be the one to… Read More
How important would you say science and research is in zoos, and should they be doing more in this regard, or less?… Read More
They haven’t done that yet, and I don’t know of many websites that I would be able to go to and contact, and get information if I would basically go call the people, unfortunately like we did 20 or 30 years ago with the contacts that you know and say,… Read More
I think our key advancement that I see in veterinary medicine for me has been the ability to safely anesthetize animals, to give us access to them for diagnostic and treatment, and also for the research. Because if you can’t safely anesthetize an animal, you know, a lot of people… Read More
With the advent of the internet, and that applicability, how has sharing internationally and nationally on some of the subjects we’ve talked about, been among the zoo vets?… Read More
Is it instantaneous now or — I think it could be a lot better. An example that I’d like to give is in Thailand, where they’ve got a fairly decent cadre of veterinarians there who can speak and understand English, and they have a website, and I’ve been tried to… Read More