Dr. Becky Frank
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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Glad to talk about my passion and my work.
Well, Pet Hospice started probably in the late 90s, but our organization started around 2008 with two doctors in Tampa who saw a need for this end-of-life care.
And they kind of went out on a limb and started this company, which in turn exploded.
They had so many calls that they had to start hiring other doctors to do this.
And they didn't want to just do in-home euthanasia, but also hospice.
And a lot of hospice in pet medicine is a lot of guiding.
So in human medicine, you can only enter hospice if you are terminal, you're likely to die within the next six months.
And many people don't actually enter hospice until the final weeks of their life.
In pet hospice, it's a little bit more fluid.
We have a lot of conversations where
you've gotten this diagnosis of cancer, congestive heart failure, et cetera, and then you don't know what to do.
You know your pet is going to die, but you're not at that step of euthanasia yet.
So you want to focus on comfort care.
Just like in human medicine, you want to make the best of
of those last days.
So we have that very common goal of keeping pets comfortable throughout that terminal diagnosis.
What isn't is really invasive care.
We're not going to be putting IVs and feeding tubes and everything else with your pet.
We are going to do our best to keep them comfortable until euthanasia usually occurs.
A lot of that goes towards, A, is my pet going to be amenable to me doing things with them?
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