Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 223
Can I take a break right now?… Read More
Can I take a break right now?… Read More
I have to go to the washroom. You know, can you ask one or two more questions, then we’ll have a lunch break. Okay. I can hold. Read More
Did we have, everybody know the right instructions of what we were supposed to do?… Read More
So that was a procedure that I tried to institute there, so that you tried to think about what you were gonna do before you did it, but then review it afterwards, and see where you could improve it. Read More
Now just you saying that just came to my mind, at the National Zoo, were you also then part of any animal emergency escape, as the veterinarians might be part of, and if you were, did anything actually ever happen, and did you do that same kind of review?… Read More
Was our preparation correct?… Read More
Did we have all the equipment that we needed?… Read More
You know, just look at it.” Well, you know, they’re very, you know, they said. “Deborah, call me back when you want me to do something. I can sit here, I don’t have a, you know, a tricorder like in Star Trek that I can read it.” And so finally… Read More
And I think that’s an important part of preventative medicine, it doesn’t sound like preventative, but it is, and it relates back to what I mentioned on the developing countries. Proactive stuff is just not a way of practicing medicine over there. I remember in one zoo in India, they… Read More
But you know, they were just afraid to anesthetize it, because they hadn’t had the experience, so I had the Indian veterinarian scrubbing in with me, and so he worked with me on the surgery, so we just didn’t come in, you know, like Dr. Kildare or something and do… Read More
And were you able to evolve that into the culture and were you able to do that on a national level too, when you would speak before audiences?… Read More
I hope so. You know, I just don’t know about the preventative medicine program at many other zoos, but I’m a big believer in that just because of the problem of manipulating our animals for diagnostic and other procedures, and I’m also a very strong proponent of proactive aggressive diagnostic… Read More
So I walk in this room and there’s just tamarins, you know, going everywhere, and they said, “It’s that one over there.” I said, “You know, could see it probably about over there on that beam, about 10 yards from in.” I said, “Okay, well what’s, well this just doesn’t… Read More
I had an … No, I, well, up until when I spent three years, I’d retired from National Zoo when I spent three years, but the other 14 years where we were going over there, and helping ’em, I was on staff at National. We talked about your sojourn into… Read More
I don’t think it was in balance, because you know, I think, you know, part of the role of a veterinarian is actually, you know, as an important part of management, if you get management right, nutrition right, you know, veterinarians are, you know, do the preventive medicine and then… Read More
How did you balance all that?… Read More
But that’s something you just have to deal with. Read More
And when you were in Thailand, were you then also still at National Zoo?… Read More
We’d been going into Thailand with the reproductive team and … Oh, probably about 15 years ago we started going over, and then … To digress back, I talked about the training program, Chris Wimmer and Rudy Rudran had at Front Royal, one of the trainees was from Thailand, Asopon… Read More
They had no gas anesthesia, so on and so on. So I talked to Sopon and he gave me a whole bunch of money to buy a bunch of equipment to take over, and so we did, took it over there, set it up in five zoos, you know, anesthesia… Read More