Jeremy Beus
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Yeah, yeah.
We commonly write prescriptions for human drugstores.
And of course, everyone always says, oh, can I put this on my medical coverage plan?
No, you can't do that.
uh i've never heard that joke before gabapentin is used to kind of calm down at a much lower dose calm down pets i believe you can do it for calming down pets probably the most common usage is for pain for neuropathic pain for spinal arthritis for pain in cats with diabetes they get pain in the what's called a peripheral neuropathy
We prescribe insulin, human insulin for cats and dogs.
We prescribe antibiotics and, you know, amoxicillins and fluoroquinolones and whatnot.
I recently prescribed a drug called...
Sedentafil everyone standing ovation Sedentafil and what is Sedentafil's trade name when taken by human beings it is a little blue pill called Viagra why on earth did you prescribe a dog Viagra Cliff that is a patient veterinary confidentiality David I can't I can't have this conversation is that real
There's definitely a, we call it a VCPR, vet-client-patient relationship.
So I have to have some level of confidentiality towards my patients and towards the pet owners.
But primarily it's the person you're protecting.
Primarily, primarily.
So Viagra was originally...
It was started out as a drug to treat blood pressure.
Pfizer was doing these studies, and it was doing a good job reducing blood pressure in their study cases in the people, but it was doing a great job doing something else, and that was helping men with erectile dysfunction.
Yeah.
We all of a sudden know which one's getting the placebo and which one is not.
Baby, this has never happened to me before in reverse.
So yeah, we actually still use sidenafil.