Jon Ayers, former Chair and CEO of IDEXX, joins Dr. Andy Roark for a conversation that might completely change the way you think about veterinary PIMS, AI scribes, and the future of practice workflows. If you’ve ever felt frustrated by clunky software, disconnected systems, or the endless admin burden slowing your team down, this episode… Read More
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What We Get Wrong in Anesthesia
Dr. Gianluca Bini, DVM, DACVAA, is here to talk about one of the scariest parts of veterinary medicine: anesthesia, and why so many of us may be overcomplicating the wrong things while underestimating the stuff that actually keeps patients safe. Dr. Andy Roark and Luca dive into veterinary anesthesia safety, monitoring, equipment, technician training, and… Read More
Life Stages and Large Breeds in Canine Nutrition
Dr. Flavia Vedova, DVM, MBA, DACVIM (Nutrition), jumps into one of the most confusing parts of pet nutrition, figuring out when to switch diets, what “all life stages” actually means, and whether your large breed dog really needs a large breed formula. If you’ve ever stared at a pet food bag wondering if you’re helping… Read More
HDYTT: Fecal Transfer for Chronic Diarrhea
Dr. Andy Roark welcomes Dr. Lily Chen, DVM, owner of Integrative Pet Wellness Center in Los Angeles, to talk fecal transfers and microbiome therapy for chronic diarrhea cases that keep cycling back to antibiotics. Using a 10-year-old German Shepherd with recurrent diarrhea as the example, Lily explains why dysbiosis can be a root cause, when… Read More
Where Are the Greatest Opportunities for Access to Care?
Dr. Andy Roark hosts Dr. Jules Benson, founder and principal of Titum Lucidum Consulting, to push the access-to-care conversation from advocacy into practical, feasible actions veterinary teams can take now. They frame access to care as a broad spectrum, noting growth in specialty access while affordability challenges are expanding even for middle-income households, and they… Read More
Should Business Leaders Have Mandatory Clinic Time?
Dr. Josh Rosen (known online as D-O-G-T-O-R Josh) joins host Dr. Andy Roark to debate a provocative question: should veterinary operations leaders who come from outside medicine be required to complete a clinic-based onboarding before leading teams? They explore the tension between “medicine people” focused on individual patients and “operations people” focused on scale, and… Read More