We all know human hospitals have been slammed since the start of COVID-19. Talking with my father and sister, who are both human doctors, the anxiety and stress plaguing the practice of human medicine is tangible. I can feel it when I stand next to them. The anxiety vibes are real. They ripple through my […]
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Wise Words from a Veterinary Surgeon (and a Nihilistic, Interdimensional, Mad Scientist)
We were in the operating room, performing a tibial plateau leveling osteotomy on a dog with a cranial cruciate ligament injury. Prior to cutting the proximal tibia with an oscillating saw, we measured 9.4 mm. Not once, but twice. We needed to be certain that we measured 9.4 mm so that we could rotate the […]
Will Artificial Neural Networks Replace Veterinarians?
A simple neural network was described on paper and then modeled using electrical circuits in 1943 by the neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and the mathematician Walter Pitts. This idea was advanced through the ’50s, ’60s, and 70’s mainly as an academic pursuit until the 1980’s when the “instant physician” showed promising clinical application. This neural network […]
