James Herriot

And so...

The flip side of the corporatization is they've taken that and they've said, okay, what can we do to charge appropriately and provide a standard of care that clients are expecting without what may have happened back in the James Herriot days, if you will, where the veterinarian would do his diagnostics and then would have to accept like a bushel of apples, right? Or what have you.

There's a story about James Herriot writing invoices on the dust in his car because that's all he had.

He didn't have any more paper.

We've graduated from that to an appropriate pay scale and charging structure, I guess.

I know who you're going to say.

You and I both probably were influenced by James Herriot, All Creatures

Great.

Right here.

But I work with veterinarians when they're struggling, when they're unsure about their careers, when they're in flux, which you've had a lot of different.

parts of your career and things that you've done.

What kind of things do you tell people when they come to you, either at a young age as a veterinarian, but anytime in their career about veterinary medicine to help inspire them, to help them stay engaged and why it's such a, I know you and I are really into into James Herriot, and that's kind of where we get our love for the profession.

But how do you describe that to others to help them stay engaged in this profession?

Yorkshire, I loved, which seems a bit...

Yeah, James Herriot country.

My dad had a little bond bug vehicle, a three-wheeler in orange.

The whole front lifted open and you sat inside it.

So they sedated it.

We had vets, um, So they put it in the stall when it was sedated and I was with it, with James Herriot, with the vet.

But it started the sedation, its head got a bit low.

So they said, would I animate the head? So I'm holding under.

Your apotherapy is definitely way outside of my wheelhouse, right? I've got a PhD and not an MD or a doctor of veterinary medicine.

So I've always been very cautious when I talk about it, just usually referring people to other resources, more authoritative resources.

But in this case, you're talking that you became interested in, of course, you're the exotic animal vet here at the University of Georgia.

So I'm curious, have you found in your work cases where your patients were, they benefited from apotherapy, where you actually use apotherapy on patients, you know, animal patients to see what would happen and the animals would benefit? Could you give us some examples of that?

and is the is vet life anything like that or not

I think traditionally yes it was um and it's when I go on placement I'm like oh this is so James Herriot um I think there's a bit more gore involved unfortunately to ruin it all but um no it is fairly similar when you're out on the road

Well, good luck with your studies.

Thank you for keeping us up to date with the cycling.