The Vet Vault: Fall In Love With Veterinary Science
Episodes
156: Is Practice Ownership The Only Way To Build Wealth? The Vet’s Guide To Student Debt, Saving, And Financial Sanity. With Eric Miller
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ever check your payslip… your student debt… your mortgage… and wonder if you’re just treading water?You’re not alone, and you’re not stuck...
155: Antibiotic Prescribing Habits Vets Need To Ditch Now. With Dr Riati Scarborough and Dr Laura Hardefeldt
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Four years after our original antibiotic myth-busting episode (Ep 60), we’re back with Dr Riati Scarborough to talk antibiotic prescribing habits. T...
154: Stop the Energy Drain: Productivity Coaching for Vets in Clinic Chaos. With Demir Bentley and Dr Ray Gates
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Veterinary life can feel like a treadmill with no off-switch: 15-minute consults that always run over. Emotional labour no one trains you for. A sched...
153: What’s Holding You Back? 3 Keys to Rewiring Your Brain for Calm, Confidence, and Clarity. With Dr Rod Irwin
16 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ever feel like your anxiety or fear of failure is just... who you are?The perfectionism. The overthinking. The constant pressure to “get it right.”...
152: Tech Tools 1: VetRec. With Kevin Cohen
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode one of our new Tech Tools series, where we cut through the noise to bring you real insights into the latest veterinary tech that co...
151: Why Do I Still Feel Like Such an Imposter? (This Is What Getting Better Feels Like). With Dr Marie Holowaychuck, Dr Kerry Nelson and Dr Rob Webster
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Am I a useless vet?Sounds like a silly question that a new grad might ask, right? But imposter syndrome doesn't care about your credentials. I...
150: What Every Vet Should Know About Antimicrobial Resistance. With Dr Kate Worthing
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stop scrolling - I know what you’re thinking: “I don’t want to listen to someone preaching to me about antimicrobial resistance - it’s bor...
149: AI Radiology for Vets: How Accurate Are Todays Tools Really? With Dr Steve Joslyn
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We scrutinise one of the most practical yet under‑examined advances in veterinary practice: AI‑based radiology interpretation tools. I sit down w...
🔓Your Game Plan for Brachycephalic Anaesthesia: Tips, Drugs, and Red Flags. With Dr Abbie Tipler
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that a brachycephalic dog with BOAS has a 433% higher anaesthetic risk than a dog with a normal nose? Let me rephrase that: that Frenchie...
148: Is the Veterinary Business Model Failing Our Patients? A Frontline Perspective From a Top UK Charity. With Dr Paul Manktelow
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“If you can’t afford a pet, you shouldn’t own one.” Ever said this line?Once you’ve been on the receiving of someone’s anger about th...
147: What I Got Wrong (And Right!) About AI in VetMed: A Software Engineer Sets Me Straight. With Rohan Relan
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 141, I shared my take on where AI fits into veterinary medicine - and where it might take us next. But I’m no expert.So I brought one in...
PIMA: The Anaemia That You Didn’t Know About, But Really Should. With Dr Cynthia Lucidi and Dr Claire Sharp. Bonus - Live at IVECCS
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s bonus IVECCS live session wasn’t your average ‘clinical 101’. I had the absolute privilege of getting two brilliant minds on the yello...
146: Your Veterinary Sixth Sense: How It Works, And How to Teach It. With Dr Annie Wayne
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever had a case where you just knew what was wrong before you even touched the patient - but if someone asked you HOW you know, you couldn’t explain...
#145: Working in Australia: The Essential Roadmap for International Vets. WIth Dr Natalia Gomez
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking of trading grey skies for the Australian sun – stethoscope in hand?Moving to Australia as a vet can change your life, but here’s the trut...
#144: Stop Fighting Your Software: Tech Tools That Actually Help Veterinarians. With Dr Caleb Frankel
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You can think of a bunch of things that make your working day (and career!) as a veterinarian more frustrating than you’d like it to be, right? But ...
🔓Clinical: Feline Anaemia: What You’ve Been Missing — with Dr Rachel Korman
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
I’m never excited when I diagnose a cat with anaemia: vague signs, confusing diagnostics, and what feels like a not-so-great prognoses. But are they...
Sneak Peek: Our New Podcast for Practice Owners. With Dr Sam Bowden
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
🎙️ Introducing the Veterinary Business Accelerator, our new podcast for veterinary practice owners who want more than just survival - they want t...
#143: How to Talk Money Without the Cringe: The Mindset Shift Every Vet Needs. With Dr Bing Zhu
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s your least favourite part of being a vet? Is it talking about money?In this episode, we take on one of the most emotionally charged parts o...
#142: Thinking About Telemedicine? Here’s What Veterinarians Need to Know. With Dr Shadi Ireifej
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Telemedicine.What’s your gut reaction when you hear that term?Maybe you think it was just a clever COVID workaround, or second-rate substitute for a...
#141: From FOMO to Pro: How I Use AI in the Clinic (And How You Can Too). With Dr Hubert Hiemstra
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo episode Hugh tackles a bold idea: if you're not currently using AI in your clinical veterinary work, you may be falling behind. And i...
#140: Science vs Profit: Navigating Medicine, Money, and Morals. With Dr Brennen McKenzie
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for the Vet Vault's own conference in the snow: Vets On Tour Wānaka, New Zealand, 10-15 August 2025!Have you ever felt pressured,...
#139: Stop The Overwhelm: Veterinary Productivity Secrets from the Getting Things Done Master. With David Allen
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Veterinary practice can be unpredictable, exhausting, and full of interruptions - not that conducive to getting things done, right? But what if you co...
#138: Veterinary Specialisation Without The Residency: The ’Scenic Route’ You Didn’t Know Existed. With Dr Matt Booth (Part 2)
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Did you know the AVMA doesn’t actually require a residency to become a specialist?”Yeah, neither did we—until Dr. Matt Booth dropped that fac...
#137: Why Emergency Vets Quit (Spoiler Alert: It’s Not What You Think!) With Dr Matt Booth
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most vets believe it’s inevitable—on average, they leave Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) after just 3-5 years. The obvious culprit? Shift work, ...
136: Are You Studying Wrong? 3 Counter-Intuitive Science-Backed Study Methods For Veterinary Professionals. With Dr Matt Hollindale
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Try our AI Blood Gas Assistant here Are you wasting hours on outdated study methods like cramming and re-reading—only to forget everything by exam ...
#135: I Want To, But I Can’t: 3 Ways Moral Injury Differs From Burnout (And Why It Matters). With Dr Shannon Bass
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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134: 5 Reasons Veterinary Teams Feel Undervalued—And How to Leverage ‘Zone of Genius’ to Change That. With Dr Natalie Fayman and Crystal Stokes
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hands up if you feel truly valued and respected at work. In this episode, we dig deep into what truly makes employees feel valued and how leaders ca...
🔓 Anesthesia-Associated Hyperkalemia. (Or, That Thing That Greyhounds Do When You Anesthetise Them) With Dr Stacey Jones
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get the show notes for this episode, plus a very neat treatment guide for hyperkalaemia, here. Join our community of Vet Vault Nerds to lift yo...
#133: The Menopause Conversation You'd Have If Your Bestie Was A Woman's Health Specialist. With Dr Nicole Avard and Georgina Drury
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lift your clinical game with our RACE approved clinical podcasts at vvn.supercast.com for more clinical confidence and better patient ou...
#132: Beyond the Bottom Line: Redefining Veterinary Business Success and Mastering Money Conversations. With Dr. Paul Harrison
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lift your clinical game with our RACE approved clinical podcasts. Get your first two weeks free at vvn.supercast.com for more clinical c...
#131: Resilience Redefined, The Opposite Of Stuck, and Taking Control Of Your Own Wellbeing. With Dr Jess Moore-Jones
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lift your clinical game with our RACE approved clinical podcasts. Get your first two weeks free at vvn.supercast.com for more clin...
#130: The Joyful Emergency Vet: Essential Strategies For A Long And Happy Career In Emergency Veterinary Practice. With Dr Brooke Schampers and Dr Taleta Hompas
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you work in emergency practice, or you're considering it, then this episode is for you. Dr Brooke Schampers and Dr Taleta Hompas are EC...
#129: Our Veterinary Report Card: Too Many Hats, Too Little Connection, And A Couple Of Blind Spots. With Rhonda Andrews
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lift your clinical game with our RACE approved clinical podcasts. Get your first two weeks free at vvn.supercast.com for more clinical c...
Bonus Episode: IVECCS Live Sessions - I Don't Think That Paper Means What You Think It Does! With Prof Steven Epstein
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
et access to our clinical podcast series with our 30% off IVECCS Special. Get case support from our team at specialists in our ...
#128: So You Want To Start Your Own Practice? With Dr Amber Christie, Brooke Goodwin and Caroline Willemse.
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lift your clinical game with our RACE approved clinical podcasts. Get your first two weeks free at vvn.supercast.com for more clinical confide...
#127: What Veterinary Leaders Can Learn From Captain America, Getting Better At Giving Feedback, And How To Motivate The Motivators. With David Liss
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You’ll hear a lot of complaining and blaming of leaders for everything that’s wrong with veterinary science. But the reality is that leading peopl...
#126: Staying At The Heart Of Animal Care: The Disruptors Who Want To Replace Us, And How To Prevent It From Happening. With Dr Thom Jenkins
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a world of Amazon and Uber-level convenience, where digital disruptors are changing the way the world interacts and how we do business, why do we t...
🔓 Demystifying Those D$&@ Liver Enzymes. With Prof Jill Maddison.
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ah, those liver enzymes... sometimes they are up when you don't expect them to be. Sometimes they're up a bit... but not that much, so you don...
125: Life After Practice Ownership, Locuming Pro Tips, Where Telemedicine Could Fit Into Your Vet Life, And Blurring The Lines Between Work and Fun. With Dr Wolfgang Dohne
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Be part of the conversation to help shape the Vet Vault with your feedback. Many of us dream of building a practice, and then one day selling it and w...
ANZCVS Membership Oral Exam Last-Minute Pep Talk
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This little bonus episode is for a very select audience of brave souls who have already completed the written part of their Australia New Zealand Coll...
#124: So You Want To Sit The Membership Exams? Your Questions About ANZCVS Memberships Answered.
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you clicked on this episode, then I’m guessing that you already know WHAT the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists members...
#123: Beyond Clinical Practice: Harnessing Your Secret Veterinary Superpowers For A Diverse Career, And Leveraging Tough Times To Fight Self-Limiting Beliefs. With Dr Stephanie Morley
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever considered doing something other than clinical veterinary practice, only to get stuck at 'but what else could I do? The only skill I...
#122: We're Fixing Mitral Valves Now?! Everything You Need To Know About the Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair Procedure. With Dr Brad Gavaghan and Dr Fiona Meyers
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You know that conversation that you have with your client when you first diagnose congestive heart failure in their mitral valve disease dog? The one ...
#121: Weaving a Safety Net: Using Herd Immunity for Veterinary Suicide Prevention. With Dr Kat Williams and Dr Alena Gadoury
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the topic in veterinary science that we wish we didn’t have to talk about. Every time we hear about another veterinary suicide, we feel sad, ...
#120: Rethink Diabetes: Why Basal Insulin is a Game-Changer In Feline Diabetes Management. With Dr Linda Fleeman.
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What if I told you that your clients never have to worry about when they inject their diabetic cats with insulin, and still maintain beautiful glucose...
#119: You’re Already a Forensic Vet - You Just Didn’t Know It: How to Get Better at It, and Why It Matters. With Dr Elizabeth Pearlman
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You know when you see that case, usually some sort of traumatic injury , where something feels a bit 'off'. Maybe the story doesn't fit th...
#118: 6 Steps To Solving Acute Respiratory Distress. With Dr Rob Webster.
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You know that feeling when the ‘not breathing well’ patient gets rushed to your crash bench, and you stand there with your stethoscope trying to l...
Vet Vault Clinical Spanish Edition: Entendiendo la Relación Entre la Gravedad Específica de la Orina y la Azotemia. (Understanding the Link Between USG and Azotaemia). With Prof Jill Maddison
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're experimenting with something... I found a software that magically translates your voice into any language of your choosing, and I'm dying to see...
#117: Purpose, Passion, and Persistence: Creating Unicorns For A More Resilient Veterinary Profession. With Dr Geoff Wilson.
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Resilience' can be a very loaded word: where is the line between 'toxic resilience' that relies mostly on stubborn grit and self-sacr...
#116: Making Linear Foreign Body Surgery Less Scary And Getting Better Outcomes. With Dr Bronwyn Fullagar.
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you find surgery even remotely appealing, then chances are a good old intestinal foreign body removal ranks high on your list of favourites. But GI...
#115: The Path To Zero Carbon Clinics: Transforming Veterinary Practices for the Planet. With Dr Jeremy Watson.
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You know you want to do it, but you don't know where to start. It's a daunting task for sure - veterinary practice is not known for being soft...
#114: "The Kidneys Are Not Toilets That You Can Flush": New Thinking On Managing Nephrotoxin Ingestion In Veterinary Patients. With Dr Corrin Boyd and Dr Leonel Londoño.
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The puppy that ate the box of NSAIDs, the lab who found the bag of sultanas, cats and lilies - you know what to do: whack them on twice maintenance fl...
#113: "Humans Aren’t Salmon": The Four Pillars of Energetic Leadership. With Dr Marie Holowaychuk and Josh Vaisman.
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"The what and the why of leadership is not up for debate anymore. We know what leadership is supposed to be, and we know what workplaces are supp...
#112: The Condition-Formerly-Known-As-HGE: Updates And Myth-Busting. With Prof. Caroline Mansfield
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you're still calling it HGE, or you're getting used to saying AHDS, it's likely that haemorrhagic diarrhoea is one of the more ser...
#111: Navigating the Pendulum: Adapting to Evolving Veterinary Landscapes. With Dr Sam Bowden.
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The last time we had Sam Bowden on the podcast, all everyone in the veterinary profession could think about was: 'too much work, not enough worker...
#110: Practice Good Medicine - The Rest Will Take Care Of Itself. With Dr Gary Turnbull
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is available as a video podcast on Spotify. Dr Gary Turnbull is a Director of The Lincoln Institute, a coach, speaker and facilitator in ...
#109: Why Lifelong Learning Is Critical For Joy, Who Regulates The Regulators, and The Changing Face of Continuing Education. With Dr Zoe Lenard.
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is available as a video podcast on Spotify. In this episode, Dr Zoe Lenard shares with us the importance of continuous learning for a fu...
108: Married To The Vet Profession: Advice From (And For) Our Significant Others. With Regina Carey
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Regina Carey is a coach, public speaker and special educator who works to help drive change within the veterinary and human healthcare professions. Bu...
#107: Why Can't We Do It This Way? New Ideas On How To Bring More Joy To Veterinary Practice. With Dr Russel Welsh.
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would you say are the biggest stumbling blocks to a joyful career in veterinary science? The unfortunate reality is that there are many people i...
#106: Dr Crocker: Intentional Career Moves, Mastering Change Without Fear, And The Pros Of Vulnerability and Virality.
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever found yourself in a moment in your career where you knew: ‘This is definitely not it. Something has to change!’ Dr Tannetje Crocke...
#105: Work hard, play hard, be kind. (And think twice before you prescribe antibiotics!) With Dr Jane Heller.
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jane Heller is the epitome of a mutlti-faceted vet career: she’s a Veterinary Epidemiologist with an interest is in infectious disease epidemiolo...
#104: A Dedication To Difficult Dogs: How Getting Better At Behaviour Medicine Can Make You Happier. With Dr Dennis Wormald.
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we chat with the incredible Dr Dennis Wormald, and discover why he wants us to take another look at the word - difficult - when it comes to...
#103: 'The More You Tell People, The Less They’ll Remember': Learning To Teach. With Dr Toby Trimble
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How much time have you committed over the course of your veterinary career to get better at teaching? I'm betting that for most of you, the answer...
#102: Resilience by Design: Mentors, Modelling, And Why Context is King. With Assoc. Prof. Sarah Guess.
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do we make 'resilience' more than just another buzzword and resilience training not just a box to tick for the HR department? Assoc. Prof....
#101: The Antidote To Fear-Based Practice. With Dr Warwick Vale
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a little nugget of wisdom for you: 'Do what you can with what you have where you are.' I stumbled upon it a while back, and it'...
#100: Feline Upper Respiratory Disease: Fundamentals, Pro Tips and a Review of What's New. With Dr Kath Briscoe and Dr Megan Braunstein.
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I don’t know about you, but one of my least favourite things to see on my consult list is a cat with a snotty nose. The idea that my patient’s pro...
#99: Betterinary. With Dr Heidi Hulon.
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Confession: sometimes I get tired of wellness discussions, with the constant barrage of advice on resilience and burnout prevention. Not because it...
#98: Spirocerca Lupi: Unmasking The New Hidden Challenge for Australian Vets. With Professor Peter Irwin and Dr Gillian Tenni.
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vets of Australia, meet Spirocerca lupi, a parasite that's been flying under the radar for a while now in Northwest Queensland. But as you'll ...
#97: The Compassion Conundrum: Is Empathy to Blame for Our Emotional Burnout, and Adjusting Your Experience Through Neuroplasticity. With Dr Olga Klimecki.
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we explore the concept of compassion fatigue from a fresh perspective. We take a closer look at the underlying mechanisms behind the terms ...
#96: The Day You Didn't Die. With Dr Doug Mader
09 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Doug Mader is a triple board-certified veterinary specialist and has been a veterinarian for nearly four decades. He is an internationally recogniz...
#95: The True Value Of Your Time: Side Hustles, Investing, Mindfulness and Empathy for Vets and Entrepreneurs. With Dr Mike Bugg.
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Dr Mike Bugg. Mike graduated from veterinary school in 2008 and started his career as a mixed animal veterinarian. However, he soon realis...
#94: Beyond the disease: The Emerging Field of Veterinary Palliative and Hospice Care. With Dr Shea Cox.
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Shea Cox is a global leader and subject matter expert in veterinary hospice and palliative care. She’s certified as a Pain Practitioner, a Hospic...
#93: Reasonable residencies, success through self-knowledge, and filling buckets. With Dr Anna Dengate.
26 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever considered, or are considering specialising, but you are put off by the journey of becoming a specialist? Usually the path to specialisi...
#92: Cushing's: Diagnose like a pro, and treat it like you mean it. With Dr Sue Foster.
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who feels like Cushing's is a nice disease to diagnose and manage? Like, how often do you feel like your hyperadrenocorticism patients are really ...
#91: Human savvy: Navigating relationships with colleagues, work and ourselves. With Dr Olivia Oginska.
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest for this episode - Dr Olivia Oginska, has made it her mission to help us have better relationships, both in and outside of work. Olivia Ogin...
#90: The life changing effect of valuing yourself and your services, and how to get better at it. With Dr Olivia James.
09 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us struggle with attaching a dollars-and-cents value to this ‘fixing animals’ thing that we do for a living. We tell ourselves stories abo...
#89: Live recording: The jaundiced cat, and rethinking liver diagnostics. With Prof Jill Maddison.
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode from our clinical series is brought to you by Elanco, makers of the broadest range of parasiticides including Advocate, Milbemax, Seresto...
#88: Okay vet, exceptional outcomes: fresh thoughts on leadership and motivation, with Dr Andrew Ciccolini.
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Andrew Ciccolini is a Medical Director at the National Mill Dog Rescue, a non-profit that rescues and rehomes discarded breeding dogs, and also the...
#87: Breakdown to breakthrough, and how the blockchain and AI and will change veterinary science. With Dr Steve Joslyn
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Steve Joslyn is a specialist veterinary radiologist and tech enthusiast with more than two decades of experience consulting for referral, teaching,...
#86: Demystifying inflammatory brain disease. With Dr Sam Long
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who loves neurology?! That little blob of skull-jelly and all the wires that come off it can be very confusing and very intimidating, even more so whe...
#85: Reality minus expectations, and a guide on how not to screw over your colleagues. With Dr Denis Verwilghen
29 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How nice are you to your fellow veterinarians? It's likely that most of us feel that we're professional and supportive with a high degree of collegial...
#84: Simple, not easy: Personal finance for veterinarians, with Noel Whittaker
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about well-being a lot on this podcast, but one thing we don’t really discuss all that often is financial well-being. And while it’s a tru...
#83: Diversity, inclusion and veterinary euphoria. With Dr Kate Toyer and Dr Cam Raw
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is supported by Animal Emergency Services Tanawha, part of the AEA group. If you're interested in the career opportunity discussed in thi...
#82: If it is to be: Dr Michael Archinal on choosing your own adventure, a side-career in media, remote indigenous dog health, and using gratitude as a shield.
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Micheal Archinal has been a vet for over 35 years and is the senior director of 9 veterinary hospitals. He has post-graduate training in animal beh...
#81: Tick paralysis update 2022: How to manage the antiserum shortage, and what’s new in case management. With the Tick Paralysis Advisory Panel.
20 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you are a clinician working in a paralysis tick area of Australia then you’ll be well aware of the 2022 shortage of tick antiserum, and you very ...
#80: Everything you need to know about canine lymphoma. With Dr Penny Thomas
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode from our clinical podcast series is brought to you by the SVS Pathology Network - Australia's exclusive provider of the advanced testing ...
#79: Exploring the trends, the myths and the facts around pet nutrition. With Shiva Greenalgh
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shiva Greenalgh is a registered animal nutritionist who specialises in companion animal nutrition in both commercial production as well as clinical an...
#78: Superhero conversations, sh&* sandwiches, and what we can learn from Ted Lasso. With Dr Rebecca Faris
09 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Challenging situations, negative emotions, hard conversations... pretty standard stuff in the average day of a vet, right? This is a conversation abou...
#77: Excellence with heart. With Dr Jeannet Kessels.
25 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ours is a pretty cerebral profession, right? But if you think about the reasons we do what we do - our WHY, for most of us, it’s mostly about heart....
#76: She said she would, and then she did. With Dr Jocelyn Birch Baker
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It used to be that work was work: it had its constraints and limitations, and if you had responsibilities or interests that seriously clashed with tho...
#75: Solutions for the staff crisis, core drivers, and the up side of rock bottom. With Dr Sam Bowden
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We like to do optimism on the Vet Vault, and because of all the enthusiastic people we speak to on here our positivity bias is constantly reinforced. ...
Housekeeping episode: Money and attention
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A quick discussion on how we've decided to handle sponsors, affiliate programs and money in general on the Vet Vault and what it means for you.
#74: The mental rectal part 2: Compassion fatigue. With Rhonda Andrews and Dr Taleta Hompas
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rhonda is back for another thorough probing of the mind, and in this episode, we examine the phenomenon of compassion fatigue from tip to… tail. Wha...
#73: Ethics, trust and the mythical 'gold standard'. With Dr Tanya Stephens
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s very easy to get stuck in a mindset of “I’ve chosen THIS thing, so all other things are off the table, because once you choose THIS thing, ...
Kidney compilation, with Prof Jill Maddison, Dr Rosanne Jepson and Dr Clint Yudelman
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a while since we’ve released one of our clinical episodes on here, so we thought we’d create this lovely little compilation of kidney ...
#72: Re-defining veterinary nursing, with Ken Yagi.
10 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
70+ episodes into the podcast, and not a single episode with a vet nurse. Shame on us! But we're changing that with this episode through a conversatio...
#71: Stronger than you think. With Elizabeth Woolsey Herbert.
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is an episode about courage. About putting yourself in situations that are out of your comfort zone and then finding it within yourself to make i...
#70: Self-kindness, the illusion of "I HAVE to", and why vulnerability might save us. With Philip McKernan
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are so many important conversations happening at the moment about the challenges facing the vet profession and the possible solutions. We love i...
#69: Vetrepreneurism. With Dr Aaron Wallace
29 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How would you define an entrepreneur? Mirian-Webster says it’s someone who starts their own business, especially when this involves a new opportunit...
#68: Corporate practice: A view from the inside. With Dr Daniel Preter.
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What’s your knee-jerk reaction when I say the word ‘corporate practice?’ The past few decades have seen some immense changes in how our professi...