Surviving Veterinary Medicine

Thanks for joining us this past year while we were figuring out not only how we'd survive COVID, but also survive veterinary medicine. Well, we did both, and now we're on to living life and creating a new and better "normal". Before we sign off, Salem Edoff has some words of wisdom he'd like to share. Watch the video on the CuraCore YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAF63UTcOq8

When Dr. Kristin Doust first moved to Australia, she hadn't planned to build a rehabilitation center for injured koalas, but that's exactly what she did. Learn more about her work with these melt-your-heart creatures at Back to the Bush Koala Rehab. Paving the way for others to follow, Dr. Doust is setting new standards in wildlife medicine by including science-based medical acupuncture. Visit Back to the Bush Koala Rehab on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Back-to-the-Bush-koala-rehab-109446330588597/ or Instagram back_to_the_bush_koalas

In this podcast, Dr. Narda Robinson interviews three professionals who have spent most of their careers in wild and exotic animal work: Dr. Lisa Wolfe, Dr. Jolynn Chappell, and Nancy Howard, former District Wildlife Manager in northern Colorado. Life's too short to be stuck in a practice that bores you. Veterinary medicine makes room for those of us who weren't born to be stuck inside.

You do you, and shake things up as necessary. In this podcast, Dr. Narda Robinson speaks with Dr. Wendy Harley about strategies for surviving veterinary medicine without losing your mind or betraying your heart.

Do you ever wonder why so many healthcare practitioners, and veterinarians in particular, burn out soon after graduation? It's because many sign up to work in places that put profits before pets, not realizing they have other options. In this episode, Dr. Nancy Bureau shows that you DO have a choice. Bond-centered care creates a safe, nurturing, and health-affirming space for veterinary patients, their people, and those who work in the practice. Think about it -- how do you wish to spend this one, precious life?

In this month's podcast I'm interviewing Dr. Allen Landes, who's a local equine practitioner in Laporte, Colorado, Allen has also been a long-standing instructor with our Medical Acupuncture for Veterinarians program. He's kind, patient, and does everything that a general practitioner would do, including acupuncture, and some rehabilitation exercises for his patients as well.

How are you feeling about your veterinary medicine career? Are you stuck, bored, feeling ethically compromised, or totally fed up and exhausted? If so, you’ll want to listen to our conversation with Dr. Alissa Edoff. Dr. Edoff started out working for a corporation and then found happiness as a mobile, solo practitioner, providing medical acupuncture, laser therapy, medical massage, and rehabilitation for small animals. Dr. Edoff has learned an incredible amount about starting, running, and growing a business — so much so that graduates of our Medical Acupuncture for Veterinarians course frequently seek her advice on ways to break away from the corporate grind. Find out more about how to take charge of your life and career, helping not just animals, but also yourself.

It's challenging enough being a veterinarian, but add to that running a highly successful business, overseeing a dozen employees, teaching, raising teenagers, and having a happy home life, and what do you have? Dr. Danielle Anderson, whose remarkable intelligence, kindness, and compassion for others furred and unfurred set a high bar for others to emulate. In our second conversation, Dr. Danielle shares how she made it through the ups and downs along the way, helping show our colleagues that we don't have to go it alone.

Medicine is changing, in both the human and veterinary fields. As integrative medicine and rehabilitation continue to blend and enrich each other with strong scientific explanations and expanding evidential support, our patients are improving in ways that were thought to be impossible in the past. It's up to healthcare practitioners to keep up-to-date with the myriad treatments available for patients with spinal cord injury, disk disease, and orthopedic debility. You have many more options than most conventional practitioners provide.

Body-reading. It’s what human bodyworkers do, day in and day out, in order to identify structural changes resulting from pain and dysfunction. If more veterinarians learned how to body-read their patients, they would become better diagnosticians and more effective healers.

Did your school teach you about secondary pathophysiologic features of spinal cord injury? Not likely. Were you told the many ways in which science-based integrative medicine matches the mechanisms of injury with mechanisms of healing? Probably not. And THAT’S why you need this podcast. Also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZXd-9XoDy88

How many times do veterinary surgeons refer patients out for integrative medicine and rehabilitation instead of surgery? How many of them give you a complete and accurate comparison of the risks and benefits of surgical vs. non-surgical approaches? Maybe, not that often? Maybe, never? It’s up to you to learn the facts about medical acupuncture, photomedicine, massage, herbal therapies, and rehabilitation before something happens to your dog or cat so that you’re not left wondering if all that pain and suffering after a highly invasive and costly surgery might have been avoidable. Kicking yourself in the head hurts. Also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/In-H276ZirE

Do you see a “holistic” veterinarian that sold you one or more Chinese herbal supplements? Do you have any idea about the quality, contents, safety, and science behind those supplements? No? In this podcast, Narda G. Robinson, DO, DVM, MS, FAAMA, explores ten problems and pitfalls with Chinese Veterinary Herbal Medicine. She also explains how and why the industry needs to change, now. For the video version of this presentation, visit CuraCore VET's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9mJ9lbgCEA

In this session, Dr. Narda Robinson meets again with Dr. Mike Petty, acclaimed veterinary pain medicine practitioner, integrative veterinary medicine provider, and a caring, compassionate leader. Dr. Petty discusses the emotional and practical challenges that veterinarians face during this pandemic, offering a hopeful outlook, moving forward.

Like everything else, COVID too, shall pass.  What’s next for you?  Who have you been, and whom do you wish to become?  You haven’t died.  You are alive, you are breathing, and you have a world of possibilities ahead. You also have been gifted this rare opportunity to reflect upon and take stock of your life.  Isn’t this the time to personally manifest the change you’d like to see in this world? If not now, when?

“When is Fear-Free® really fear free?  When is “Cat-Friendly” really cat friendly?  Join Dr. Narda Robinson and Dr. Mike Petty for this month’s podcast as they envision ways to raise standards of care and the ethics of practice even further by adding science-based integrative medicine.”

In this episode of Surviving Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Narda Robinson continues her interview series with Dr. Mike Petty. They speak about veterinary practice, ethics, education, and how to constructively work in the veterinary profession to provide better, safer, and more well-tolerated pain medicine measures, especially for the canine patient.

In this interview, Dr. Narda Robinson interviews Dr. Mike Petty, veterinary pain medicine specialist. They discuss ways that veterinary students and veterinarians can survive and succeed, seeking to humanize veterinary education and expand options for animals that include integrative healthcare. Want to learn more about Dr. Narda Robinson and CuraCore VET? Visit CuraCore.org/vet and find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CuraCore/

"Better than Band-Aids”: The AVMA has its Wellbeing website, but we need more than Band-Aids to banish this burnout. In this episode, Dr. Narda Robinson outlines five strategies to fix the funk you’ve found yourself in. Want to learn more about Dr. Narda Robinson and CuraCore VET? Visit CuraCore.org/vet and find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CuraCore/