Interview 22122 – Caption Index: 121
And you mentioned there was a new director at the time, William, Bill Bridges?… Read More
And you mentioned there was a new director at the time, William, Bill Bridges?… Read More
That was Eric Miller. Eric Miller had done a residency, and then was the junior veterinarian, I guess you would’ve call him then. Read More
And who became the junior to your senior?… Read More
Yeah sure, yeah. Read More
So was that again another sell, to say, “We need a full-time vet here”?… Read More
First zoo residency for the veterinary school, and also of course, the first one that was zoo-based in the country. Read More
So now you have a resident and yourself, so that made you the senior veterinarian?… Read More
Well, (laughing) I guess that would’ve, but essentially the other was a residency, and we went through two or three residents, and they came for two years and then they moved on. The first one went on to Minnesota Zoo, and then the next one went on to another, and… Read More
There was a veterinary residency prior to that at University of California, but that was university-based. This had the zoo there, and I wanted it to be part, really the university to be part of it, just like any other resident. If somebody’s doing a residency in ophthalmology or surgery… Read More
I just evolved into that, because as we took veterinary students for two-month blocks along, then that evolved into setting up a residency program, which is for a veterinarian who has graduated from veterinary school already, and wants to devote his career to zoo medicine. So that’s something that we… Read More
And that was the first type of thing for the medical school?… Read More
What dose do you use on, you know, a lemur or whatever?… Read More
That’s another position, or you just evolved into it?… Read More
And trying to figure it out was sometimes a little difficult. But you became senior veterinarian and director of research. Read More
Because essentially as a zoo veterinarian back then, we were doing research. I mean, we were using drugs on animals that had, those drugs had never been used on a lot of those animals. We talk about M99, well the other anesthetic that was used a lot back then was… Read More
Well, what drugs are we using?… Read More
And so we had the opportunity, and you didn’t necessarily know, well, what dose do you use on an alligator?… Read More
When are you approached to get a different position than just veterinarian and why?… Read More
In a way I did have the opportunity though, because I did get there, it was under a different thing, and it wasn’t doing clinical medicine, it was doing pathology. But it gave me the opportunity, and so maybe that’s why I did it, I don’t know. I just thought… Read More
I mean, I don’t know that I was approached to do it. I guess as doing clinical medicine, I was always interested in why something works or doesn’t work I guess, and that’s research in a way. You know, you’re checking into it. Read More