Dr. Doug Mader joins Dr. Andy Roark to talk about his new book, The Vet at Noah’s Ark: Stories of Survival from an Inner-City Animal Hospital. They discuss Dr. Mader’s career in inner-city LA during and immediately after the Rodney King trial in the early 1990s, Dr. Mader’s evolution as both writer and veterinarian, and Dr. Mader’s view of where veterinary medicine is going in the future. Read More
Perspective
Advice For and From the Next Generation of Vet Medicine
Dr. Peter Weinstein and his daughter Brooke Weinstein, a current veterinary student at Oregon State’s College of Veterinary Medicine, join Dr. Andy Roark to talk about how veterinary medicine has changed over the last 20-30 years, and how it’s going to change in the future. Our guests talk about how the education of veterinarians today… Read More
When Veterinary Clinics Get Cancelled
What’s it like to have your clinic torn apart online? When thousands of phone calls roll in telling you that you’re awful, what impact does that have on the staff and how do you handle it? Do you respond? What if that just makes things worse? Read More
Why I’m Leaving The Vet Clinic
Today was a big day for me. My eighteen months of maternity leave has finally come to an end and I would have been returning to work as a registered veterinary technician at the same small animal hospital I’ve been employed with for over nine years now. But instead, I’ve chosen to take a big… Read More
Are You Trying to Be Someone Else?
In veterinary school, future vets are generally taught that there is a “right” way to do things. There is a gold standard, a best practice, and a correct answer. That mentality tends to seep into our minds… and our minds were already largely programmed this way in college if not before. We’re taught early on,… Read More
Which Encanto Character Are You? – Vet Med Edition!
If you have young children at home like me or are a Disney-loving child at heart, then the beginning of your 2022 has been dominated by the movie Encanto. I was just discussing with a friend how impactful Encanto is the first time you are actually able to pay attention to it without the distractions of… Read More