A note for veterinary professionals troubled by how divided society is becoming Recently, I’ve felt a tension on America that I haven’t experienced before. To me, it feels like the nation is straining to pull itself apart in a new and more determined way. The divide between people with different ideas about how a country… Read More
Poop Transplants: Going Beyond Parvo and Chronic Diarrheas (HDYTT)
Dr. James Oldeschulte joins Dr. Andy Roark to talk about a topic you probably didn’t think you’d hear on your commute today: fecal transplants. Yep, we’re diving into poop and how it is changing the way we treat veterinary patients. If you’ve always thought fecal microbiota transplants were only for chronic diarrhea or parvo puppies,… Read More
Falling Job Satisfaction and Rising Salaries in Vet Techs
Beckie Mossor, RVT, joins Dr. Andy Roark to dig into the surprising results of NAVTA’s 2024 demographic survey of veterinary technicians. Salaries are climbing, yet job satisfaction is dropping fast. How do we make sense of this? Beckie unpacks the data, from the overwhelming push for title protection and standardized credentialing, to the growing frustrations… Read More
The State of Shelter Pet Adoption
Dr. Chelsie Estey, Chief Veterinary Officer for Hill’s US, joins Dr. Andy Roark to unpack the brand-new 2025 State of Shelter Pet Adoption Report. If you think shelter trends are all about “too many pets, not enough adopters,” think again. This massive study digs into the real barriers behind pet adoption and relinquishment, from the… Read More
Your Clinic is Not a National Trend
A note for anyone who jumbles all of the problems together in their head One of the strange side effects of the veterinary profession becoming more corporatized and widely invested in seems to be a bigger focus on industry trends. Until recently, there simply wasn’t a lot of coverage of what was going on at… Read More
The Impacts of Medical Futility
Dr. Nathan Peterson, DVM, DACVECC, MA Bioethics joins Dr. Andy Roark to dive into one of the hardest questions in veterinary medicine: what happens when treatments feel futile? As an emergency and critical care specialist at Cornell with a master’s in bioethics from Harvard, Dr. Peterson has studied how veterinary teams wrestle with cases where… Read More