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 […]
Vet Med Does Not Kill Creativity
We’ve all seen the TED Talk titled Does School Kill Creativity in which Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for redesigning school systems that cultivate creativity. He discusses the idea that traditional schools educate students out of creativity by placing educational blinders on, shielding them from all that is art, free-thought, and creative exploration. I […]
The Yin and Yang of Veterinary Medicine
We are all familiar with the age-old icon. The circle, half black and half white, with the white dot on the black side and the black dot on the white side. It is order amidst the chaos, representing the concept of duality in Ancient Chinese Philosophy, or whichever philosophy you wish to use to make […]
