Episodes
Nov. 2, 2021
#55: Be more Forrest. With Dr Rob Pope.
Robert Pope is a British veterinarian, athlete and charity fundraiser. He is an elite distance runner, with a number of successes at the marathon and ultramarathon distances, including being the Australian marathon champion i...
Oct. 21, 2021
#54: Telling the good from the bad and the ugly: In-house cytology tips. With Dr Brett Stone
In this episode, we speak to Specialist Veterinary Clinical Pathologist Dr Brett Stone. Brett has extensive experience in both clinical pathology and histopathology. He has worked as a pathologist in Australia and the UK for ...
Oct. 13, 2021
#53: What are we so afraid of? With Drs. Kate Clarke and Magdoline Awad.
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, most of which never happened.” Mark Twain In episode 49 we dissected one of the biggest fears that many vets have: the fear of an official board complaint, from the persp...
Sept. 19, 2021
#52: Aspirate, or just jiggle? (And other sampling questions answered.) With Dr Rebekah Liffman.
There are many things you do almost every day in your job as a clinical veterinarian, usually multiple times a day. Sometimes these things become so routine that you don’t even stop to think about what you do and how you do i...
Sept. 9, 2021
#51: Some might call it stubborn. We call it courage. With Dr Mariana Pardo
Courage. Grit. Persistence. Some might call it stubbornness. Whatever you call it - our guest for this episode has it in spades. Dr Mariana Pardo is an emergency and critical care specialist at the Veterinary Emergency Group,...
Sept. 2, 2021
#50: Is it ok to send a spleen in a bucket? With Dr Flaminia Coiacetto.
Yes. it's totally fine. In fact, it's the preferred way to send your spleens to the lab. Here's another thing that I learnt from this episode: pathologists don't necessarily look like Uncle Fester from the Adams Family! Join ...
Aug. 28, 2021
#49: The dreaded client complaint, with Dr David Tabrett.
For this episode, rather than casting our conversational net wide and seeing which topics come up, we have a very specific topic. We wanted to get insights into complaints made against us as vets. Our goal with the episode wa...
Aug. 12, 2021
#48: Burnout: Identification, predispositions and solutions. With Professor Gordon Parker
Thanks to Heska Australia for supporting this very important series of episodes on mental health, resilience, and burnout prevention. Go to https://www.heska.com.au to find out about ways to re-imagine the way you run your in...
Aug. 2, 2021
#47: Vicarious trauma, burnout, and living with the critic inside your head. With Rhonda Andrews and Dr Louisa Johnson.
Vicarious trauma, burnout, and living with the critic inside your head is supported by Heska Australia . It's time to re-imagine how you run your in-house pathology and radiography. Visit https://www.heska.com.au/products/lab...
July 23, 2021
#46: Solutions, not problems. With Dr Justin Ward.
Dr Justin Ward is a veterinarian and practice owner from the Gold Coast in Australia. He grew up in South Africa where he studied veterinary science before heading to the UK for a 5 years stint of locuming and travelling, eve...
July 16, 2021
Everthing you need to know about veterinary compounding.
Other than conundrums around the legalities of labelling and wondering if you're allowed to stock any compounded meds for 'emergency use', drug compounding is probably not something that most of us give a lot of thought to. Y...
June 29, 2021
#45: 6-second hugs, and other reslience tools. With Dr Hannetjie van Zyl-Edeling.
Dr Hannetjie Van Zyl-Edeling is a counselling psychologist, mediator, author and artist, amongst other things. You’ll know that our goal at the Vet Vault is to help you create a sustainable and thriving life around your veter...
June 16, 2021
8 Secrets that radioligists use to make them better than us at interpreting X-rays.
Does it drive you crazy how you'll sometimes look at an X-ray image and you don't see anything significant, but then you send it to a radiologist and they come up with a long list of important things!? How do they do it?! Wel...
June 1, 2021
#44: The C-word. With Dr Penny Thomas.
Dr Penny Thomas’ career has taken her from working as a nurse in a specialist clinic while she was doing her vet degree, to a stint in mixed practise after graduating from the University of Sydney in 2011, and all the way to ...
May 21, 2021
Ureteral stones. Yes - it's a thing! With Dr Dave Collins.
Welcome back to another one of our clinical episodes. I decided to share this one today because of a case I dealt with just this morning. We had a cat in hospital with what was thought to be acute renal failure, but what turn...
May 7, 2021
#43: Integrative practice, with Dr Gary Richter.
What do you think when you hear the words ‘holistic’, or ‘alternative’. What about "complimentary"? These are terms that can evoke quite strong opinions and responses in many vets one way or another, right? 100% honest - I wa...
April 14, 2021
Treating anaphylaxis. With Dr Rob Webster
A bonus episode from the Vet Vault Clinical ECC podcast. We deal with fat lips from bee and wasp stings on a daily basis in practice, but what about the more severe full-blown anaphylaxis reaction? It's a whole different kett...
April 3, 2021
#42: Burnout: The bigger picture. With Dr Ivan Zakharenkov
Our guest for today Is Dr Ivan Zakharenkov, or Ivan Zak as he’s better known. Ivan is a veterinarian and an entrepreneur committed to creating products that empower healthcare teams to live their passion. If you haven’t heard...
March 16, 2021
#41: The yin and yang of emergency practice. With Dr Lorna O'Dowd
We’re back today with another full-length vet interview, and it’s a corker! We’re exploring the ins and outs, the ups and downs and the and the joys and struggles of a career in emergency practice, with Dr Lorna O’Dowd. You’...
Feb. 23, 2021
#40: Niche practice and rubbery numbers. With Dr Randolph Baral.
This episdoe is a bit of a hybrid between our standard performance episodes and a clinical one. We speak to Dr Randolph Baral, who owns and works in a feline-only practice in Sydney, Australia. But Randolph doesn’t just like ...
Feb. 8, 2021
#39: Get to know your hosts, part 1. With Dr Hubert Hiemstra.
I recently had the privilege to be interviewed by my podcast/business coach, James Whittaker. James is an author, film producer, entrepreneur, all-round great guy and host of the Win The Day podcast. We thought we'd share it ...
Jan. 25, 2021
A cure for FIP. With Dr Dave Collins.
You know that virus that the entire world hates at the moment? Yes - the C-word. Well, us vets have hated it for a long time, because it’s been killing our feline patients relentlessly in it’s mutated form of Feline Infectiou...
Jan. 15, 2021
#38: Behaviour: pets, vets, and clients. With Dr Sarah Heath.
Dr Sarah Heath is an RCVS and European Veterinary Specialist in Behavioural Medicine and was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 2018. She is an External Lecturer in small animal behavioural medicine ...
Jan. 4, 2021
Peri-operative management of brachycephalic dogs, with Dr Bronwyn Fullagar and Dr Mark Tenenbaum.
We wanted to share one of the episodes from our clinical series of podcasts to give you an idea what they are about. This one is from a series we did on brachycephalic obstructed airway syndrome (BOAS) with specialist surgeon...