Latest / Ask The Experts / A Look Behind the Scenes of a Vet Clinic with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Vet

Transcript

A Look Behind the Scenes of a Vet Clinic with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Vet · Ask The Experts

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Thirteen ten Wi b A and ask the experts brought
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: to you by Checkout Veterinary online check out vet dot com.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: That's check out vet dot com and a chance to
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: visit the website. Definitely head on over there. A lot
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: of really good information about checkout Veterinary. What makes it
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: so unique, the great design, what the experience is all about.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Of course a nice thing there to bind you as
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: well that the first visit and exam is free at
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary. Again, you can learn more online the website
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's check out vet dot com.
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Great day to start that relationship. Make an appointment at
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary telphon number six oh eight three one eight
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. That's six oh eight three one eight
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. And joining us this morning is doctor
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: Marty Greer. Of course, doctor Reer recognized by the Westminster
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: kinnl as Veterinarian of the Year.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: Doctor.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: How you doing this morning?
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Thank you.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: It's good to talk to you, and we're going to
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: talk about some of the things as as patients are
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: pets and UH and as clients at checkout vet, we
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: may not always see or understand, and I find it fascinating.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: We've been talking the past couple of weeks. Of course,
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: the hours at Checkout Veterinary Monday through Wednesday and then
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Friday through Sunday nine until five and soon to be
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: all seven days a week at checkout VET. Of course,
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: check in VET is open Monday through Friday. But you
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: had mentioned hiring new vets and bringing new veterinarians on
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: at Checkout VET. I thought, well, that's interesting, kind of
• 1:21
  Speaker 1: how the for those of us that don't always get
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: a chance to learn about this stuff what all goes
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: on in a VET clinic. And obviously the person that
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: most of us are familiar with is our veterinarian. But
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of support staff around. Let's got us
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: talk about some of the people around you at the clinic,
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: some of the people that make things work so well.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: And of course a lot of folks may be familiar
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: with the term like a vet tech. What exactly, doctor Greer,
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: does a vet tech do?
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: Sure? So it's about a four to one ratio of
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: one doctor to four support staff, depending on who they are.
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: We have lots of support staff. We have people who
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: answer the phones that keep things rolling after hours. We
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: have a service that helps us to answer the phone
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: at the practice so that there's trained professionals that can
• 2:14
  Speaker 2: help you make decisions about how your veterinary care needs
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: to be provided, should you go in, is it an emergency,
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: those kinds of things. Of course, we have our CSR
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: as a receptionists. The customer service representatives will help on
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: the phone. We have ave Tack, a certified that tech
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: and that's a very specific term and sometimes gets used
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: a little casually. There is a certified veterinary technician and
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: this is someone who has at least a two year
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: degree with additional training after high school on veterinary care.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: In Wisconsin, they're called certified. Some states column registered, so
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: there are RvTs, some state calum licensed LVTs. But it's
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: a very specific term meaning that they are trained specifically
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: to run anesthesia, to give vaccines, to assist the doctor,
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: to take X rays, to draw lab work, all kinds
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: of specific veterinary procedures that they're trained to do. Then
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: we have veterinary assistants and those are the ones who
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: help us with the other stuff. You have to be
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin to give a ravy vaccination or to run anesesia.
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: You have to be a certified veterinary technician. Veterinary assistance
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: are not allowed to do those specific procedures. They can help,
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: but they're not allowed to be the person who's running
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: the anthesion monitoring your pet during an sesion to make
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: sure that they're safe. Then we have the other support staff.
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: We have a manager at practices and then so that's
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: going to be an office manager or practice manager. If
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: it's somebody that runs multiple clinics, that might be a
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: hospital administrator. So there's a couple of different levels of
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: administrative care as well as just the just the VA's
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: just certified VETTEX and the doctors. So there's a lot
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: of layers to it.
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: The sure is I want to ask about kind of
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: assembling that team. I know you put a lot of
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: work over the years. We talk about the clinic and
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: the amount of work that went into kind of the
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: design and set up, and I know finding those right
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: doctors and right team around you as well at Checkout
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: Veterinary is really important. That's one of the great things
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: about taking your pet and getting into Checkout Veterinary is
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: it's a great location. Of course, they're real conveniently located
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: right at twenty seven to ten Prairie Lakes Drive and
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: sun Prarie, just off the interstate. If you can hear
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: our voice this morning, you are just moments away from
• 4:37
  Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary. Not only is the clinic unique, the team
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: around around the doctor and of course the doctors at
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: checkout vet they are there for you. They are very
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: special people. Great data, start that relationship. Pick up phone,
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: give a call six oh eight three one eight sixty
• 4:49
  Speaker 1: seven hundred. That's six oh eight three one eight sixty
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: seven hundred. Doctor. I remember very early on a conversation
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: we had on air, and you had mentioned about kind
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: of the importance of the people aroun round you, and
• 5:01
  Speaker 1: you know, and make sure as as clients and as
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: as we bring in our pets that we're acknowledging. You know,
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: these these people do very very hard work. And I know,
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: speaking of hard work, you personally work very hard on
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: finding that right team of folks, whether it's the vets
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: or or the support staff around you. You work very
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: hard on finding really good fits, don't you.
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's truly important that they are compassionate, caring,
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: want to be there, want to work the hours that
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: we're offering them services because working weekends, well, you know,
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: there's some practices and there's some professions that that's not
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: something that you have to do. But pets don't pick
• 5:41
  Speaker 2: the day of the time and the day that they
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: get six. So we have to be available when they
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: need us. And yes, it does take a lot of
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: work to get the right people together and then they
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: have to be compatible with each other. And so yeah,
• 5:53
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of layers to it, just like you
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: know any other team that you put together. It's not
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: it's not just you know, do you have a pulse.
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: It has to be a lot more than just that
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: you're breathing and that you that you show up, but
• 6:05
  Speaker 2: that you really are compassionate and and really care about
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: what you do.
• 6:12
  Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinarian
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: com or toping number six. So eight three one eight
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred, that's six eight three one eight sixty
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: seven hundred. Let's talk about vets and this was this
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: is something that has surprised me, is there is a
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: shortage and it's it's it's sometimes quite difficult to find
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: the right vet for the clinic. And I did not
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: realize that what is going on in the in the
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: in the industry, or or in the world. That's that
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: we're seeing, you know, a hard you know, clinics closing
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: across the country. We're seeing consolidation oftentimes. What's going on
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: with the with kind of the the veterinarian world right
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: now doctor that we're that we're seeing this this reduction
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: in the number of doctors out there.
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: Well, COVID hit pretty hard. There were people who were
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: pretty impacted by that, and it changed the hours that
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: practices were open. A lot of practices shortened up. We
• 7:07
  Speaker 2: did shorten up our hours. We have never gone back
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: to the hours we had before. We used to be
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: open in Lamira until nine o'clock at night, and that
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: changed during COVID, and that once that disappears, it's really
• 7:19
  Speaker 2: hard to get it back. The emergency clinic and referral centers,
• 7:23
  Speaker 2: many of those are open twenty four hours a day,
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: seven days a week, but some of those have reduced
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: their hours again because of staffing, so it has been
• 7:31
  Speaker 2: more difficult to staff were but we stopped at Walmart
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: last night, you know, and Walmart used to be twenty
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: four hours a day at any of their locations, and
• 7:39
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's any twenty four our walmarts anymore. So,
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: you know, it certainly has been different. During COVID, some
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: of the places went to curbside. We fortunately never did.
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: We continue to serve our clients by letting them come
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: into the practice because I think it's really important that
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: your pet is accompanied by you, and that's why we
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: did set up practice and that drive through the way
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: we did is so that you can be present and
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: be with them. I think it's really important that you
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: see what's happening. They rely on you to know that
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: it's okay, that it's safe, and that you understand what
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: we're doing. And we can explain to you all along
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: the way what we're doing, what we're finding, what our
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: physical exam findings are, what our test results are, and
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: how we need to address your pet's care. So that's
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: something that we really are significantly committed to. But a
• 8:29
  Speaker 2: lot of practices have cut back their hours. Some are
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: still curve side. They just prefer it that way, and
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: it's just in a general way, it's just been harder
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: to hire staff and harder to hire doctors. There is
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: also the corporatization happening in veterinary medicine, as it is
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: in dentistry and some of the other professionals optometry, eptomology.
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: There are corporations now that own these practices instead of
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: it being individually owned by the local doctor and their
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: family member, often that worked in the practice, a husband
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: and wife, you know kids. Uh, it's really it's changed
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: a lot. So corporatization has not necessarily improved some of
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: the things that happen. In other ways it has. They've
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: been able to allow better staff benefits, but it's it's
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: more difficult because we don't have that mom and pop
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: feel to some of the practices anymore.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: Docor this morning with doctor Mardy Greer kind of lifting
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: up the curtain a little bit. You ever wonder what
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: goes on in the world of veterinary medicine. Some really
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: great information from the doctor. Speaking of great information, if
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: you if you haven't had a chance to check out
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: the website for checkout Veterinary, head on over there now
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. The
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: clinic very conveniently located right at twenty seven to ten
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Prairie Lakes drive in sun Prairie. Great day to make
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: that appointment. Six soh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: That's six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: Between checkout Vet and check in Vet, they've got you
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: covered seven days a week. Of course, check in Vet
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Monday through Friday and check out Vet Monday through Wednesday
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: and then Friday through Sunday, so they are available to
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: you weekends. And and doctor, what about the clinics themselves?
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: And well, I'll probably you know, Focus in Marshall is
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: a great example of that. A lot of clinics like
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: those nice community where you know, it's a smaller town
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: and everybody knows each other and the doctor the vet
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: is really convened to get in. Places like that have
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: have gone by the wayside, and you were able to
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: when the Marshall Clinic became available, you guys were able
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: to come in at Checkout Veterinary and keep that that
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: clinic going. Stuff like that isn't all that common these days,
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: is it.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: No? A lot of those practices are closing, consolidating, uh,
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: shortening hours. Doctors are retiring and don't have anybody to
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: take over for them. Uh, there's a you know, generational
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: difference in who wants to be responsible for practice ownership.
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: So we've seen a change in that. Now that being
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: said that that isn't everybody, but it certainly is a
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: percent of people. And there are a lot of new
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: graduates coming to market, you know, coming out of school
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: that are interested in owning practices. So we want to
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: foster that. There are organizations that helped us support them.
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: There are student organizations and veterinary organizations to support the
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: new graduates, and in fact, we're hiring a new one
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: for Lamira, So we're excited about that and that's going
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: to make a big difference if we can mentor some
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: of these people that are interested in practice ownership, because
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: it is a lot of students graduate with a significant
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: amount of debt, but practice ownership is the fast track
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: to paying off your debt more quickly than just working
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: in a practice. So we want to foster that. We
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: want to support new graduates, We want to support them
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: in practice ownership and give them the opportunities that we had.
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was pretty exciting when we graduated. You know,
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: we did didn't really know what we were doing, but
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: somehow we managed to start a practice, and here we are,
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: you know, forty forty years later, we're still we're still
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Talk to you too about about that, about obviously what
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: dro drew you into into veterinary medicine. And I know
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of a lot of folks with kiddos
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: and grandkids that may have interest in becoming vets or
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: working in the in the in the veterinary care industry.
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: I want to talk to you a little bit about that.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: We'll get to uh, get to that just a moment,
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: doctor Gray. If you haven't had a chance, please head
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: on over to the website. Just a great one. Checkout
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. You can
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: learn about checkout Veterinary what makes it so unique? As
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: we talked this morning and each week with doctor Marty Greer.
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: You can also learn more about doctor Greer on the website.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: Checkout vet dot com. Great data. Start that relationship. Don't
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: forget your first visit that exam. It will be free.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: Telephone number six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: That's six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: More of ask the experts. But check out Veterinary continues
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: next right here on thirteen ten Double U I B A.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Thirteen ten, Double U I B A and Ask the
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Experts talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: You can learn more online their website checkout vet dot com.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: AT's check out vet dot com if you haven't been
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: there recently. I know a lot of work went into
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: the redesign and update of checkout vet dot com. It
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: really does a great job of helping understand what makes
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: the Checkout Veterinary concepts so amazing, so convenient for you
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: and your pat And we're going to talk about for folks,
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: young folks that may want to get into the end
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: of the practice, so what it's what all to think
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: about and what that's like. But first and foremost coming
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: up on Sunday, Oh my goodness, we're already into May. Sunday,
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: May fourth, You've got your Meet the Vet event going
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: on at Checkout Veterinary from three until five, and doctor
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a great opportunity for folks to
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: come in, meet the doctors, check out the clinic, get
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: to know everybody, and it sounds like a really fun event.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: Coming up on Sunday.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got some fun activities planned. We're going to
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: have a nice opportunity to meet doctor Scheller and I'll
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: be there. Doctor Griffins will be there, so it'll be
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: fun to get a chance to see people and meet them.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Ease off. You are just a little curious about whether
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: this is the right place for you and your pet,
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: Please stop in and take a look at how we
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: do things our facility. It's really beautiful, it's clean, it
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: smells great, The pets are comfortable. So if you just
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: want to test the waters, please stop by and say
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: hi and get to know us, see how we practice
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: and what our philosophy is and how we can help
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: your pets. And thanks.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: Coming up on Sunday the fourth, that's this Sunday from
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: three and till five at the sun Prairie location right
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: at twenty seven to ten Prairie Lakes drive in some prairie.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Really great opportunity. And Doctor we were talking earlier about
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: just about you know, putting that team together around you,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: and you mentioned some of the other vets are going
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: to be at this event. I know that that's important too,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: is having really good communication skills and really being interested
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: in engaging and engaging with not just the pets, but
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: with the people as well. So really good opportunity again.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: Meet the VET coming up on Sunday from three until
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: five at the Checkout VET right on Prairie Lakes Drive.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Great event. I get on and say hello, check the
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: place out. Let's talk about I know that you know
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: you were talking about your experience and kind of when
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: you got started in veterinary medicine. And obviously everybody's journey
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: is a little bit different. But for people that may
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: be looking at a career in veterinary medicine, what's some
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: of your advice to them, What do you advise them
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: to be doing now and kind of what are some
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: of the steps they should be taking.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Sure, so for kids that are interested, and there's kind
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: of two subsets of people that enter veterinary medicine. One
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: is the subset that when they were four or five
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: years old, that's all they ever wanted to be or
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: to do, was to grow up to be a veterinarian.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: They wanted to do horses or cattle or dogs, cats,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: you know, whatever. So at a very very young age
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: people pick up on this. The other subset is in
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: late high school and early college that they realized that
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: this is a good career choice for them. So it's
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: an opportunity for us to realize that kids at a
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: very early age, very tender age, get excited about this career.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: So if you're interested, you have to have really good grades,
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: and you have to realize that it's going to be
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: a pretty long haul. To go through veterinary school. You
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: need a three to four year undergraduate program and then
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: a four year degree program in veterinary medicine, and then
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: for sub students they go on to do an internship
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: and or a residency, so that can be up to
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: twelve years by the time you get done with everything
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: post high school. If you're not interested in that much
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: time and educational settings, then a veterinary technician can be
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: a great career as well. Like I said, that's a
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: two year program. There is a four year as well,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: but most people do the two year program. And there
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: are some set of specialties now developing in that field
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: as well, for anesthesia and dentistry and some other aspects.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: So almost any specialty that we see in human medicine,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: there's a comparable specialty in veterinary medicine. So dermatology and optimology,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: and cardiology and internal medicine and imaging, so radiology, anything
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: that you're interested in. We can find a subset of
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: skills that you can go on and develop in veterinary
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: medicine and it's pretty exciting. So and when you graduate,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: you are qualified to do all the species. So you
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: can do marine animals, or you can do laboratory animals,
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: or you can do it doesn't just have to be
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: dogs and cats or horses and cattle, And it gives
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: you the chance to do all kinds of different things.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: You can work in industry, you can work in practice,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: you can work in research. So it's a really broad
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: education that opens doors to many, many opportunities. So it's
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: a very exciting career. And even if you decide that
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: practice is your thing, there's never two days that are
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: the same, never two days that are boring. It's a
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: great career. I mean seriously, it is the best job
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: in the world.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: And you get to spend time with animals. I mean,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: how fantastic better. Yeah, exactly, I was going to ask you,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: doctor you have I think your husband worked quite a
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: bit with large animals, as I am, I remembering that correctly.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, he did day for twenty four years and then
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: twenty years ago decided that he was done without his
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: body said okay enough, so he changed career paths, went
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: back and did some training and acupuncture and chiropractic, so
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: he's qualified to do all kinds of pain management. So
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: he still practices, and then he also helps run the
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: financial aspects of the practice. So it's a really lifelong
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: career that you could stay active and physical and engaged.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: It truly is we get to help people. We get
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: to help their pets and their other animals. It's the
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: best job in the world.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: It is a great it is a great career path
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: for the if you are a person that loves people,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: love animals, loves quality of life for animals, and such
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: a great, great thing. And it's always great to get
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: a chance to spend time with doctor career each and
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: every Thursday here on thirteen ten Wiba speaking of spending
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: time getting to know the doctors, don't forget coming up
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: on Sunday. This Sunday, the fourth meet the vet at
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: the Checkout Veterinary Clinic from three until five pm. We're
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: at a twenty seven to ten Prairie Lakes Drive and
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Sun Prairie. They'd love to see you. You can get more
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: information at checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: com marking on your calendars. It's this Sunday from three
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: until five. Meet the Vet. A great opportunity to see
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the clinic if you haven't seen it, yain and it'll
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: get to know those vets at checkout Veterinary again, open
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Monday through Wednesday, Friday through Sunday, nine until five. You say, well,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: what about Thursdays, Well they've got you covered Thursdays as well.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Check in Vet, the sister clinic of checkout Vet, open
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, nine until five.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Again.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: All the details available online at checkout vet dot com.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Doctor Greer, thank you so much for joining us this morning.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: You have a great day and I'll look forward to
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: seeing you this weekend.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Thank you, and.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Again that event Sunday this Sunday the fourth, from three
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: until five. More information available at checkout vet dot com.