Please excuse me, but I am and always have been pre-occupied by individual and team performance. How about you?  Do you ever find yourself mesmerized by the intricate precision of a band’s sound or the rich flavor of single musical note?  Have you ever been consumed by a dance performance executed so elegantly that it … Continued

March Madness is upon us … that magical time of year where the best of the best lay it all on the line. Storied, traditional powerhouse basketball programs compete against programs often only a fraction of their size … the classic David versus Goliath. I don’t know about you, but it is the performance of … Continued

On a recent phone call with my 94-year old mother (how can that be?  I like to imagine myself as being just 35 years old.), she recalled one of her memories of me as young boy. I, too, recall the day with vivid detail as though it were yesterday.  Our family was vacationing in northern … Continued

The fabulous feline rests just a few notches below US politics on a list of polarizing topics for public discussion.  Love ‘em or fear ‘em, the mysterious and all-powerful domestic house cat is a unique creature that has historically been sadly relegated to almost an afterthought in the world of veterinary orthopedics.  In effort to … Continued

Once upon a time, TPLO and TTA did not exist as treatments for cranial cruciate ligament-deficient (CrCLD) stifles. There was a day kids, when the only surgical options were some means of recreating the stabilizing function of the CrCL, and Extracapsular Suture Stifle Stabilization (ExCap) techniques were chief amongst them.  Then, along came the various … Continued

What do you find yourself doing when you need to “unwind” from your professional role & responsibilities? What do you do when you need to “refresh and recharge” after a tough stretch? Are those “unwinds” and “recharges” the same thing for you … or are they each a little different? For me, I can enjoy … Continued

My career in veterinary medicine started as a high school student working as a “kennel boy” in a small animal veterinary practice in Kansas.  I kept the cages clean and took care of people’s pets as instructed with the same or more compassion than I applied to my own pets. Fast forward a few decades … Continued

Let me be open and honest with you … I am optimistic and bullish on Vet Med. Though this crazy, mixed-up profession of our looks so very different than when I received my DVM diploma, it is arguably more exciting than ever.  There is so much new knowledge, technology, and drive for innovation & growth … Continued

Resilience: the ability adapt and respond to challenges, stressors and change; toughness; the capacity to seek positive outcomes through adversity and challenge. The COVID pandemic, it seems to me, had some dramatic impacts upon the display of human resilience. It is safe to say, that the global human psyche was challenged; resilience was the only … Continued