Not specifically with the government, we were asked to, you know, freedom of information, and they were trying to hammer me one time on the care of the giant panda, and we’re doing some stuff, and what I learned there is that the unfortunate thing with the freedom of information,… Read More
How do you see a small or a medium-sized zoo dealing or being involved with wildlife conservation?… Read More
Can they do it from a medical standpoint, or any other standpoint?… Read More
Veterinarians are part of the animal care, aside from the other people who work with animals, where do you think animal care in general will be going in the future?… Read More
I think it may be taken over, having bigger influence with the tree huggers. You know, we’ve already seen that in the elephants, you know, they’re trying to shut down elephants in captivity, we’re running into the size of exhibits, population densities and exhibits and things like that, where people… Read More
In your professional career, have you had experience in dealing with PITA or other organizations, zoo check or other organizations, where you had to give your political opinion, not a political, but your professional opinion?… Read More
I’d say improve your diagnostic skills, your surgical skills, possibly not in a zoo, but you know, in a small animal internship, a large animal internship, get those skill sets down, unless you’ve gotten great skill sets out of vet school, and I think vet schools now that are making… Read More
I just don’t know how to get that across. And I think the other important thing is, for God’s sakes, have fun. I mean because you’re in a great place, you’re working with great animals, you got a great job, have fun. The fun’s not there from what the people… Read More
People want, “Well I wanna only work four and a half days a week, and I want every Sunday off, and I wanna be out here at 5:30 depending whether I’m waiting for a pathology report, or what the blood thing is gonna say, or if this culture’s coming out,… 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
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
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
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
You’re aware the pulse oximeter?… 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
Where would you say the greatest changes occurred, in diagnosis or in treatment?… 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