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What is it Like to be a Veterinarian? with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 2: Doctor, how are you doing today?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing great, thank you. And we've got some big
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Speaker 3: things coming up. We've got Marshall open Monday through Friday
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Speaker 3: in Marshall, and we have two three new doctors that
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Speaker 3: we've hired, so they'll be coming on board so that'll
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Speaker 3: give us hours on Thursdays, we're going to have a
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Speaker 3: bit longer hours in the evening one night a week.
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Speaker 3: So there's some very good changes coming that'll make it
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Speaker 3: easier for our people to get in.
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Speaker 1: It's like when the better better, the best becomes better,
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Speaker 1: which is yeah, it seems like a yeah, that is
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Speaker 1: that is really exciting. And now this week we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk about what it's like to be a veterinarian.
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Speaker 1: Is it was something that in doctor I you know
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Speaker 1: you and I get a chance to talk for a
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Speaker 1: half hour each week, and I've absolutely loved picking your
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Speaker 1: mind and get getting some insight of you know, of
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Speaker 1: pet care and what it's you know, kind of what
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Speaker 1: the experience is like for for patients and pets at
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Speaker 1: checkout Veterinary. But I don't think we've really talked a
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Speaker 1: lot about what it's like to be a to be
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Speaker 1: a VET, and before we kind of get into the
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Speaker 1: day to day stuff for a veterinarian, I want to
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Speaker 1: ask a little bit about you, doctor, why you know,
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Speaker 1: how long have you been a VET, and kind of
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Speaker 1: what was it that made you decide this is something
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Speaker 1: that I want to devote my life to.
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Speaker 3: Well, I've been a vet almost forty four years, so
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Speaker 3: that means seven years before that I had to make
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Speaker 3: a decision to go to veterinary school. I love science.
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Speaker 3: I've always had fun in science and high school, junior high,
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Speaker 3: in high school, I've enjoyed it, and I knew I
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Speaker 3: wanted to do something with medicine, but frankly, and I
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Speaker 3: don't like sick people, so I decided that veterinary medicine
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Speaker 3: is better. I did work at a human hospital for
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Speaker 3: summer's drawing blood on patience I was that vampire that
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Speaker 3: used to come to your hospital room and draw blood,
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Speaker 3: and you know, I'd see patients that were sick and
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Speaker 3: I'd be like, Nope, nope, this isn't this isn't my bag.
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Speaker 3: But love medicine. If I had been born in the
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Speaker 3: sixteen hundreds, I probably would have been burned at the
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Speaker 3: stake because I'm you know, probably would have been classified
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Speaker 3: as a witch back then. So it's a, you know,
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Speaker 3: kind of an interesting place to be. But practicing medicine
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Speaker 3: is really fun and I think it's the best job
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Speaker 3: in the world. I'm absolutely elated that this has been
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Speaker 3: my career. I've never thought about it being a job.
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Speaker 3: I've always thought of it as a lifestyle, a career.
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Speaker 3: I love it, love it, And if we have kids
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Speaker 3: that are coming into the field, are interested in coming
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Speaker 3: into the field. I know there's a few people out
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Speaker 3: there that are discouraging him because of the length of
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Speaker 3: time it takes to be in school and the cost
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Speaker 3: of the loans. But I'll tell you, the loan repayment
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Speaker 3: isn't impossible when you get paid well as a new graduate,
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Speaker 3: and the people who are graduating now are amazing young people.
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Speaker 3: So we really have a lot of fun mentoring them.
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Speaker 3: So we'd love to have anybody that thinks they might
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Speaker 3: want to go to veterinary school come pay us a visit,
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Speaker 3: come spend a day with us. We do require a
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Speaker 3: few things. They have to wear clothes, toe shoes, no jeans,
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Speaker 3: and they have to eat before they come, because I've
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Speaker 3: had too many kids pass out. I mean, they're so
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Speaker 3: excited to come in they skip breakfast and then they
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Speaker 3: get kind of woozy. I'm like, no, no, no, you have
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Speaker 3: to have a granola bar before we start. So, you know,
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Speaker 3: simple things like that. But we would invite any young
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Speaker 3: person that thinks, well, old person too, that thinks they
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Speaker 3: might want to go into the field because it is
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Speaker 3: such an amazing field to be in, and I would
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Speaker 3: love to have people have that opportunity to see upfront
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Speaker 3: what it's really like to be in a veterinary practice.
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Speaker 3: The other cool thing about being a veterinarian is there's
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Speaker 3: a million careers you can do with it. It can
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Speaker 3: be pharmaceuticals, it can be food nutrition, it can be
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Speaker 3: product development, it can be researched. I mean, there's just
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Speaker 3: a huge number of career choices. If you have that
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Speaker 3: veterinary degree.
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Speaker 1: What about for folks As we talked this morning with
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Speaker 1: doctor Marty Greer of check Out Veterinary, and I was
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Speaker 1: a little surprised the other week when you had mentioned
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Speaker 1: that that there is a there is a shortage of
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Speaker 1: veterinarians and it can be quite a quite a short
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Speaker 1: to find the right veat for for the clinic. And
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Speaker 1: I know when it comes to putting together that team
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Speaker 1: out check Out, at Checkout Veterinary, you really work hard
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Speaker 1: to find the right vets. And also, folks, you know
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Speaker 1: the texts and the managers, I mean, these are these
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Speaker 1: are people that have that all have a real passion
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Speaker 1: for what they do. And there's there's other roles at
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Speaker 1: a veterinary clinic aside from from being the doctor, isn't
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Speaker 1: there right?
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Speaker 3: We have managers, we have veterinary assistance, we have veterinary technicians. Now,
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Speaker 3: a technician is a two year degree in most states.
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Speaker 3: In Wisconsin, it's a two year degree and there's actually
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Speaker 3: a bet tech school in Madison. There's a vet school
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Speaker 3: in Madison, So you can do a two year degree
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Speaker 3: if you don't want to do the full seven or
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Speaker 3: eight years of undergrad and then veterinary school. If that's
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Speaker 3: not in your future because of the length of time
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Speaker 3: in school, or it's not your academic preference. You know,
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Speaker 3: we have lots of other career choices, but it is
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Speaker 3: the most amazing job. I mean, it's absolutely cool. So
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Speaker 3: there are lots of options, and a lot of people
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Speaker 3: start off as a veterinary assistant or a vet tech
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Speaker 3: and then they go on to veterinary school. A lot
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Speaker 3: of people find that career path. But if you just
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Speaker 3: want to be with animals, if you just love animals,
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Speaker 3: and of course you have to love the people that
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Speaker 3: come with them because they don't come by themselves on
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Speaker 3: their own credit cards, you still have options for things
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Speaker 3: that we can have.
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Speaker 2: You do.
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Speaker 3: We have, you know, people that enter the phones, and
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Speaker 3: people that help in the exam rooms, and people that
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Speaker 3: happen surgery, managers, all kinds of things. So it's it's
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Speaker 3: really a fun career and lots of different options. I'm
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Speaker 3: very fortunate to have great managers at all the practices
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Speaker 3: we have. We own four practices all together, one in
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Speaker 3: La Mayra and then the one in Marshall and the
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Speaker 3: two and some prairie. I have amazing managers and incredible doctors,
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Speaker 3: wonderful staff. We're really blessed to have that team around
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Speaker 3: us that really keep things rolling because I can't do
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Speaker 3: this by myself, and as you know, I travel a bit,
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Speaker 3: so I can't be everywhere. I can't be at all
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Speaker 3: four locations in on the road, so I really have
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Speaker 3: to rely on very good people and we've been blessed
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Speaker 3: with those.
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Speaker 1: And it's through hard work, I know, and I know
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Speaker 1: you and I have talked off the air about, you know,
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Speaker 1: the amount of work that goes into finding those those
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Speaker 1: right people at the clinics. And it's a great day
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Speaker 1: speaking of getting to know the right people to start
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Speaker 1: that relationship.
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Speaker 1: little bit about what the day is like for a veterinarian,
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Speaker 1: what goes on at the clinic day in and day out.
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Speaker 1: Look at the details on the doctor from the doctor
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Speaker 1: More of our conversation with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout
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Speaker 1: Veterinary next here on thirteen ten Wi B A eight
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Speaker 1: forty six thirteen ten WI b A and ask the
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Speaker 1: experts with Checkout Veterinary. Talking of course this morning with
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Speaker 1: doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary. The website checkout vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Greaty to start
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Speaker 1: that relationship. Telephone number six oh eight three one eight
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Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. That's six oh eight three one eight
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Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. And talking with doctor Greer this week
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Speaker 1: about what it's like to be be a VET and
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Speaker 1: what it takes to get into that field and what
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Speaker 1: a rewarding field that is. Let's talk doctor about kind
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Speaker 1: of what uh kind of what goes on in a
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Speaker 1: vet clinic, maybe things that we don't always see as
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Speaker 1: as patients and pet parents. I know, there's there's obviously
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Speaker 1: the stuff that that we see up front, but there's
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of you're talking like managers on things.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot that goes on in the clinic day
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Speaker 1: in and day out for a veterinarian, isn't it isn't there?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Oh yeah, it's still a business. You know,
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Speaker 3: we still have to have all the moving parts of
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Speaker 3: HR and finance and all the stuff that goes with
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Speaker 3: running a business. Though that comes as a little bit
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Speaker 3: of a shock to people, like it doesn't just happen
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Speaker 3: by itself. But really, the veterinary clinic is interesting because,
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Speaker 3: first of all, it's not the only career in veterinary medicine.
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Speaker 3: It's the one that's most obvious to most people. But
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Speaker 3: no two days are over the same. You think you
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Speaker 3: have a schedule, you think you're going to have surgery
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Speaker 3: in the morning and appointments in the afternoon, and then
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Speaker 3: all kinds of things are happening and changing, and so
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Speaker 3: you have to kind of we even dive and adjust
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Speaker 3: to what's happening. Because when sick patients happen, or injured
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Speaker 3: patients happen. We have to adjust. There's not a way
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Speaker 3: that you can say, well, I'm sorry, you can only
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Speaker 3: get sick on Thursdays. So it's really important that people
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Speaker 3: know that there's a lot of flexibility, which is good.
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Speaker 3: It keeps us from ever having boredom. It keeps us
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Speaker 3: from having two days ever the same again, because everything
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Speaker 3: is different. So we do surgery, we do dentistries, we
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Speaker 3: do surgeries. I mean, veterinarians are kind of like the
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Speaker 3: jack of all trades. We do dermatology and ophthalmology and
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Speaker 3: internal medicine and surgery and dentistry, and of course then
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Speaker 3: wellness and vaccines and dewarmings and preventive care. All those
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Speaker 3: things fall to us because we don't have Although there
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Speaker 3: are specialists, you don't go to a specialist for everything.
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Speaker 3: They typically start with your primary care veterinarians and if
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Speaker 3: it's something that requires an advanced surgical procedure and ophthalmologists,
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Speaker 3: we have those available. We have them in specialized practices
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Speaker 3: in Wisconsin, and we have them at the Veterinary School.
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Speaker 3: So we have places that we can refer clients too
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Speaker 3: if they have something that's sick, but in general, veterinarians
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Speaker 3: handle about ninety five to ninety eight percent of all
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Speaker 3: the things that happen to your pet, So it kind
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Speaker 3: of gives you an idea of we don't have one
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Speaker 3: area of specialization. We do all the species. I can
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Speaker 3: do all the species I don't, but you can. So
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Speaker 3: I can do everything from chickens and turkeys to fish,
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Speaker 3: so small animal dogs and cats, to rabbits, to cows,
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Speaker 3: to horses, to goats and sheep. So we are qualified
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Speaker 3: to do all that. We're qualified to do zoo animals.
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Speaker 3: So if you have an area of interest, if you
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Speaker 3: want to marine medicine, you can you know, you can
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Speaker 3: go into that field. So that's what makes it really
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Speaker 3: cool is that there's so many options available to you
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Speaker 3: as a veterinarian cause of that tech, that you can
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Speaker 3: develop those areas of specialization and really, you know, thrive.
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Speaker 3: We in the Lamira practice do a lot of work
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Speaker 3: with breeders because we have a lot of purpose bread dogs.
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Speaker 3: So it's important people know that you can go to
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Speaker 3: a breeder and get a dog that's predictable, reliable, healthy,
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Speaker 3: health tested, all those things. But you can go to
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Speaker 3: the shelter you can go to the We have lots
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Speaker 3: of choices and we work with all of them, so
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Speaker 3: it makes it a really interesting career.
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Speaker 1: It is pretty amazing. I was going to ask you too,
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Speaker 1: doctor about continuing education. I know one of the things
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Speaker 1: that for folks that you had mentioned earlier, you travel
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Speaker 1: a bit, and one of the things you often are
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Speaker 1: traveling to are sometimes things people don't think about. Are
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Speaker 1: you know, learning about pet nutrition and kind of latest there.
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Speaker 1: And we were talking a month or two ago about
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Speaker 1: some of the techno logical advancements in medical and medicine
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Speaker 1: other things there is just like with human medicine, pat
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Speaker 1: medicine is advancing every single day, and you got to
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Speaker 1: keep on top of that stuff, don't you.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, when I graduated from bed school, there wasn't
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Speaker 3: even ultrasound for pets. So we have ultrasound, we have
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Speaker 3: set scans, we have MRIs, we have all kinds of
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Speaker 3: advanced imaging, we have all kinds of advanced treatments. We
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Speaker 3: can do chemotherapy on patients, we can do advanced surgical procedures.
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Speaker 3: So there's a lot of things that have changed, and yes,
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Speaker 3: so you have to keep up. We do have continuing
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Speaker 3: education requirements. I was on the Veterinary Examining Board for
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Speaker 3: seven years a few years ago, which gave me insights
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Speaker 3: into how other people practice and the kind of education
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Speaker 3: that we need to keep up with. Three weeks ago
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Speaker 3: we went to France to see the Royal Canaan factory
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Speaker 3: and understand what the Royal Canan products are, what their
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Speaker 3: new advancements are. So there's always something happening, something new,
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Speaker 3: something really interesting. As we were getting ready for this,
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Speaker 3: I was talking to my husband about next week, there's
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Speaker 3: two meetings that we can go to in the evening
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Speaker 3: that teach us about the new pancreas, pancreous medication, the
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Speaker 3: new probiotics. So you know, I'm pretty much a CE junkie. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and encourage my staff to do the same as I
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Speaker 3: want them to stay on the cutting edge of all
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Speaker 3: that's new, and we want to make sure that you
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Speaker 3: are not excluded from any of those new advancements just
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Speaker 3: because you go to a small practice instead of going
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Speaker 3: to you know, corporation practice or going to a referral center.
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Speaker 3: I want my staff to be very well informed on
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Speaker 3: all what's new.
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Speaker 1: Dog This Morning with doctor Marty Greer of checkout Veterinary online.
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Speaker 1: Checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Great
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Speaker 1: that first visit to checkout veterinary. It is free. That
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Speaker 1: exam is free. Mentioned learning more about taking care of
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Speaker 1: your pat The website checkout vet dot com is a
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Speaker 1: fantastic resource. And I wanted to talk to you about
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Speaker 1: doctor ask you a little bit about professional organizations. And
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Speaker 1: I know Westminster is a big one. We talk about
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Speaker 1: you have been recognized as Veterinarian of the Year from
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Speaker 1: Westminster Kennel Club. There's other groups as well as kind
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Speaker 1: of along those same lines of continuing education other things.
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Speaker 1: There's also organizations that you you know, you'll refer people
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Speaker 1: to or from time to time bring up, you know,
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Speaker 1: certain certain websites or other things. I'm staying interconnected with
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Speaker 1: with other other organizations, other groups is really important to
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Speaker 1: what you do as well.
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Speaker 2: Isn't it?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely? And we have lots of organizations in veterinary medicine
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Speaker 3: that go into specialties. We have lots of resources, so
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Speaker 3: it's great. We have an American Veterinary Medical Association, we
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Speaker 3: have a Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association. And then we have breeding,
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Speaker 3: you know breeders, which is stereogenology. We have dermatology, we
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Speaker 3: have behavior. I think the behavior piece is really interesting.
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Speaker 3: I've taken a lot of course work in behavior, and
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Speaker 3: there's an American Association of Veterinary Behaviorists. So if people
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Speaker 3: are having concerns about their dog or cat's behavior, we
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Speaker 3: have people that are specialists in that, so you can
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Speaker 3: go to that website and find information. So there's so
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Speaker 3: many resources out there that if you just take a look,
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Speaker 3: you know, don't just go to Facebook because that's really
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Speaker 3: not your best medical source of information. Go to the
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Speaker 3: websites that are specially a specialty for those particular kinds
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Speaker 3: of skills that you're looking for based on what your
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Speaker 3: pets needs are. So there's almost a group for everything.
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Speaker 3: I mean, if you're raising backyard chickens, there's a group
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Speaker 3: for that. If you're raising sheep and goats, we've got
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Speaker 3: all those all those things that we have for choices.
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Speaker 3: There's some really great organizations and resources out there, so
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Speaker 3: be selective in what you look for. What to google
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Speaker 3: first may not be the best source of information.
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Speaker 2: Dog's Morning with Doctor Marty Greave.
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Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinarian the website checkout vet dot com. That's check
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Speaker 1: out vet dot com. Doctors are like from like a
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Speaker 1: doctor's perspective, like a mistake. You often see folks when
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Speaker 1: they bring their pet to the into a clinic that
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Speaker 1: that you know something that like any like really good
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Speaker 1: advice to either ways to prepare their pet or ways
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Speaker 1: to bring their pet into the clinic, and you know
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Speaker 1: things that maybe pet owners may not be aware of
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Speaker 1: but can really really help when it comes to having
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Speaker 1: a really good visit to the to the clinic.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'd say, first of all, make sure that they're
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Speaker 3: on a leash or in a carrier if it's a cat,
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Speaker 3: so that they are protected and they're protected from other
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Speaker 3: pets that are in the clinic. And the lobby and
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Speaker 3: check out. We don't have that, but it check in
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Speaker 3: and at Marshall of course we have those regular waiting
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Speaker 3: rooms lobbies. Secondly is don't wait too long to come
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Speaker 3: in if your pet isn't feeling well, don't wait until
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Speaker 3: they're really really stick. Come in when you have the
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Speaker 3: early assignment there's something going on, because it's much easier
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Speaker 3: for us to make a diagnosis, develop a treatment plan,
16:49
Speaker 3: and get that pet health turned around if you haven't
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Speaker 3: waited till the very end. Third is if they have anxiety,
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Speaker 3: we do have medications that we can send with you
16:57
Speaker 3: prior to the visit. Even if we have seen you
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Speaker 3: for a bit, we can get some medication for you
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Speaker 3: so that their visit is less stressful. And if they're
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Speaker 3: less stressed, you're less dressed, and vice versa. So there's
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Speaker 3: several medications that we frequently prescribe for pets. It may
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Speaker 3: be tresed and it may be fulactine, it may be
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Speaker 3: a preslam, it may be gaba pen And we please
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Speaker 3: don't go to the cabinet and give their you just
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Speaker 3: go start taking stuff of your own and giving it
17:21
Speaker 3: to your pets because you have to make sure that
17:23
Speaker 3: you have the right drug in the right dose for
17:24
Speaker 3: that particular condition. But there are definitely things that we
17:27
Speaker 3: can do to help your pets, especially the cats. Cats
17:30
Speaker 3: don't like being carriers. Cats don't like traveling in the car,
17:33
Speaker 3: So anything we can do to make it easier for
17:35
Speaker 3: them is best. There are some pheromones, which are hormones
17:38
Speaker 3: that they only get through inhaling them smelling them. So
17:42
Speaker 3: we have Adaptol for dogs, we have feel Away for cats.
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Speaker 3: Those are helpful, but sometimes you need more than that.
17:47
Speaker 3: We don't recommend any of the CBD based products because
17:50
Speaker 3: at this point we don't have any research and there's
17:52
Speaker 3: no FDA approved products along those lines. So please talk
17:55
Speaker 3: to your veterinary professional about a pharmaceutical that we know
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Speaker 3: is reliable. We know is what the dose is, we
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Speaker 3: know it's the source of the medication, so we can
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Speaker 3: help your pet have the best visit possible. Because I
18:06
Speaker 3: don't want to wrestle with your cat and I don't
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Speaker 3: want to have struggles with your dog. I want this
18:11
Speaker 3: to be as easy on them and as easy on
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Speaker 3: you as at all possible. It's possible to make that happen.
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Speaker 1: Nobody likes, obviously, the anxiety. Nobody likes being bit, and
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Speaker 1: I know pets don't like. I obviously don't like getting
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Speaker 1: in that story.
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Speaker 2: Are there is?
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Speaker 1: When we're talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer, one
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Speaker 1: of the questions Doctor, I think a lot of folks
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Speaker 1: wonder is like being established as a patient.
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Speaker 2: That does mean something, right.
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Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, And it's been a struggle for people. During COVID,
18:39
Speaker 3: a lot of the clinics changed to curbside and cut
18:43
Speaker 3: back on the number of appointments, the number of hours
18:45
Speaker 3: that they were offering client visits. We never closed our
18:47
Speaker 3: doors to anybody. We had them open during the entire thing,
18:50
Speaker 3: so at least one person could come in with the PET.
18:52
Speaker 3: I feel like the PET really needed to have you
18:54
Speaker 3: along with them, And I think there's probably a few
18:57
Speaker 3: places that are still reluctant to have people come through
18:59
Speaker 3: the door. Pets come with people. That's just the way
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Speaker 3: it is. You need to be there for their support.
19:03
Speaker 3: We need your information about their history, their health concerns,
19:06
Speaker 3: all the things that are going on. So I think
19:09
Speaker 3: it's important that we identify that that's the case. But
19:13
Speaker 3: it has been sometimes hard to keep the number of
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Speaker 3: appointments available that we need to get people through the door.
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Speaker 3: So we've been in a position that we have started
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Speaker 3: because we've got our new hires, We've got for new
19:24
Speaker 3: doctors coming or hired and coming, we have new staff,
19:29
Speaker 3: additional staff, so we are now in the availability for capacity.
19:33
Speaker 3: So if your pet has been established with us, great,
19:36
Speaker 3: If you have a new pet, even better. And if
19:38
Speaker 3: you're new to us, and that's lovely too, because we're
19:41
Speaker 3: more than happy to get you through the door. Get
19:44
Speaker 3: your pets care the need that they that they have.
19:47
Speaker 3: You know, whether it's a wellness visit for vaccines and
19:49
Speaker 3: blood work, or whether it's your pet is sick or injured,
19:52
Speaker 3: needs a surgical procedure, whatever it happens to be Spain,
19:55
Speaker 3: neuter dentistry, lump removal, whatever, don't be afraid to call
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Speaker 3: us because we're going to make a comment to figure
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Speaker 3: out a way to get you in. It may not
20:02
Speaker 3: be the exact time that you asked for, but we
20:04
Speaker 3: will figure out a way to get you through the
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Speaker 3: door because to me, it's really important that we have
20:08
Speaker 3: that availability for established and for new clients.
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