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
And so we had the opportunity, and you didn’t necessarily know, well, what dose do you use on an alligator?… 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
When are you approached to get a different position than just veterinarian and why?… Read More
Yes. to the zoo director, and you had to sell it to the university. Well, I had to sell it to the zoo director because it allowed, but these students weren’t getting paid. They were coming to learn. And so in the beginning yes, I had to sell it to… Read More
(laughing) Maybe, you know?… Read More
Do you think you did it because you never had the opportunity?… Read More
So this was your idea to start the program?… Read More
As I was the veterinarian at the zoo, I right away allowed veterinary students, I had them sign up, I only took one student at a time, and they were there for two months, and then another student. At that time, the university had started what they called the block… Read More
Or was it when you got to the next level and became the senior veterinarian?… Read More
So you’re the veterinarian, and while you were the veterinarian, is that when you started the preceptor, the residency program?… Read More
Did you start this program as you were the veterinarian at the zoo or after you moved up a little?… Read More
Well, if they were extremely well worked up, I could go, you know, publish them in various journals, referee journals. You know it was interesting, because as you know, university professors and so forth, they talk about publishing all the time, or trying to publish and how difficult it is. Read More
I guess I just thought it was part of the duty to share that knowledge and to do it in, you know, a professional manner. Every time I did I, you know, took that opportunity. I also did, you know in the beginning, offered an opportunity for veterinary students who… Read More
What prompted you, if there was anything, to feel that it was important for you to publish, and tell people about what you’d seen?… Read More
Well, Chuck Sedgwick was at San Diego Zoo. Earl Schobert was not full-time, but he did Busch Gardens in Florida. The other ones that were, I talked with Paul Chaffee out in California, Gordy Hubble down in Florida. There was a couple of part-time ones. Bud Herzog was part-time veterinarian… Read More
Who were some of the people and zoos who had the full-time vets that you were working with?… Read More
So how did you communicate these different cases with these veterinarians?… Read More
And it was a group that if you had cases, “Well, how do you take care of this?… Read More