Dr. Andy Roark and Jamie Holms reflect on personal growth and professional goals for 2024. Andy grapples with patience and avoiding internalizing others’ emotions, while Jamie aims to declutter her mind and improve her communication. Both stress the need for balance in veterinary medicine, emphasizing individual needs. Cone Of Shame Veterinary Podcast · COS –… Read More
Understanding the Role of Nutrition and the Microbiome in Overall Pet Health
Dr. Caroline Mansfield, registered specialist in internal medicine and honorary research professorial fellow at the University of Queensland and clinician at James Cook University, joins Dr. Andy Roark to discuss the role of the gut microbiome in the health and disease of dogs and cats. Caroline provides an overview of the importance of the microbiome… Read More
Three Questions to Handle Frustration
I don’t think I’m alone in feeling that the holidays can be the most frustrating time of the year. It’s not that I don’t love the holiday season. I absolutely do! It’s that there are high expectations for how great the season is supposed to be, and those expectations can lead to frustration when life… Read More
The 4 Gifts of Veterinary Medicine – Rotate Your Dogs
In this episode, Dr. Andy Roark and Jamie Holms revisit an old article on balancing happiness, stability, and giving in vet medicine. They reflect on changes in perspectives over the years, discussing the evolution of these core principles while exploring the intricate facets of happiness, intentional giving, and the dynamics of optimism and realism in… Read More
Does it ever feel like the world is getting too big?
One of my favorite ideas from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is that of the Total Perspective Vortex (TPV). In the book, the TPV was a machine built to show beings a glimpse of the infinity of creation… and it’s used as the ultimate torture device. Human’s brains, it seems, are not meant to… Read More
HOF: Anesthesia Crash Cart Course
Dr. Andy Roark dusts off this Hall of Fame episode in which he discusses the essentials of anesthesia crash carts with Veterinary Anesthesia Nerd, Tasha McNerney. Together they talk about what tools should be in your anesthesia crash kit and what kind of common pitfalls they’ve seen in practice. Cone Of Shame Veterinary Podcast ·… Read More