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394 - Should Business Leaders Have Mandatory Clinic Time?
30th April 2026 • The Cone of Shame Veterinary Podcast • Dr. Andy Roark
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Dr. Josh Rosen (known online as D-O-G-T-O-R Josh) joins host Dr. Andy Roark to debate a provocative question: should veterinary operations leaders who come from outside medicine be required to complete a clinic-based onboarding before leading teams? They explore the tension between “medicine people” focused on individual patients and “operations people” focused on scale, and how lack of day-to-day context can lead to decisions (like shorter appointments, pricing changes, wellness plans, or staffing shifts) that fuel burnout, harm client relationships, and hurt retention. Rosen argues leaders do not need technical skills like drawing blood, but they do need repeated, ongoing clinic exposure (such as weekly doctor shadowing) to understand real workflow and build sustainable, collaborative relationships between medical and operational leadership.

Dr. Josh Rosen is a relief veterinarian and veterinary content creator based in the New York metro area, practicing across NYC, Long Island, and Northern New Jersey. A graduate of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, his clinical interests span preventative care, urgent care, soft tissue surgery, dentistry, dermatology, and internal medicine. Working across many practices has given Dr. Rosen a rare, unfiltered view of what's actually happening on the ground in veterinary medicine today, including the growing gap between how organized medicine operates and what the people doing the work know it needs. He channels that perspective into his platform, @dogtorjosh on Instagram, where he covers clinical empathy, effective communication, team culture, and all the relatable laughs we share in this amazing profession. Today, he's advocating for a profession led by those with real, lived veterinary experience, rather than metrics alone.

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Welcome everybody to the Kun

Shame Veterinary Podcast.

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I am your host, Dr.

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Randy Rourke.

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Hey, should, operations train people

who have not worked in practice

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before, should they be required

to do like a medical onboarding

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before they become a regional

director or an operational

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leader, should that be a thing?

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What would that even look like?

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Guys, I have a guest on today, Dr.

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Josh Rosen, , or dog tour.

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Josh as he is known online.

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, but he had some interesting thoughts

on this and I kind of brought him on.

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Because I thought that's a fun idea

I would like to play with, and he's

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clearly thought a lot about it.

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And honestly, I, I really

like this episode a lot.

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I think that there's, , I think

that there's some real opportunity

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and potential for people who are

trained in outside of medicine,

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in operations, and people who are

trained in medicine and outside of

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operations to spend more time together.

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And to get to see each other more clearly.

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And I think that's, I think

that that's really important for

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the future of our profession.

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I think it's gonna decide which

practices are great and which

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pre practices, , really struggle.

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And so anyway, I just, I really

took a lot away from this talk.

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It's a really cool idea.

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Talk.

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I hope you guys will enjoy it.

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Let's get into.

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Kelsey Beth Carpenter: This is your show.

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We're glad you're here.

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We want to help you in

your veterinary career.

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Welcome to the Cone of Shame with Dr.

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Andy Roark.

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Welcome to the podcast, Dr.

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Josh Rosen.

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How are you my friend?

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I'm doing great.

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Doing great.

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324:

Josh, for people who don't know

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you, you are a vet influencer

of social media, , presence.

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I really enjoy your stuff.

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I think you're funny.

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I think you're very positive, , when

you talk about vet medicine and,

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, you're a very optimistic person.

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And so those are the things

that I look for on social media.

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I just, I really enjoy

the work that you do.

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you were also.

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The veterinarian behind Doctor Josh,

D-O-G-T-O-R, doctor Josh, , vet

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Relief and Consulting Services.

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, You have an interesting, you've got a

really interesting perspective, which

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is why I wanted to invite you on here.

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It's sort of a combination of

who you are, meaning you, you

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do a lot in the profession.

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Yeah.

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I think you have a, sort of a

high level view of the industry.

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You do relief work, so you

are going into practices.

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You have.

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Been a medical director at multiple,

for multiple hospital groups.

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And so you have been in, in medical

leadership inside of a couple of

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different types of organizations , and

then you do consulting services as well.

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And so I think you've got

a really cool perspective.

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And you had a social media

post I saw on Instagram.

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It's been a little while now.

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but, but a while ago you had this

post and I thought it was fun.

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And you said that you believed that

people who were coming into vet medicine.

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From outside the industry in like

a leadership or operations role

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should be required to do, to have

like an externship, , learning,

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like, like doing the medicine side

before they were allowed to lead

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other people inside of vet medicine.

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I thought that was a fun idea

and I want you to, I want you

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to state your case for me.

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, squadcaster-319f_1_02-06-2026_132324:

that's definitely, a fun topic to discuss.

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I really appreciate being here.

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I'm excited to talk about this.

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So, when we talk about, , organizational

medicine and we talk about the idea

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of being able to, , make decisions

and, and make adjustments to the way

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that we want to be able to help as

many pets as we can and, and be able

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to make our team as happy as possible.

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. There's definitely situations

where we aren't always bringing in

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people at, , say, regional levels

or, , operational leadership levels

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that have been throughout the process

of, veterinary medicine before.

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And maybe they're coming from outside of

the industry from, . I typically refer

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to say like Target or, I've seen seven

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there where there's a different way of

looking at, , the financial perspective

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and, and being able to be as productive

and, and perform as well as possible.

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Keep your business as healthy as possible.

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, I think that it's really important too.

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Keep those ideas and, and not,

leave those types , of individuals

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out of the conversation.

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However, when we know that they are

coming in with the weakness that they

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have not been in this field before.

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It is our duty in this field to make

sure that those individuals understand

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what it is that they're managing at

the level that they're coming into.

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Because if they are making decisions

that are, say, changing the pricing,

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model that exists at a clinic, or maybe

they're adding, wellness plan, or maybe

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they are taking people off the floor

for a certain day of the week, whatever

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the case is, that they understand what

those impacts actually are, aside from.

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The financial benefit and the reason

why that's important is because.

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if we are only looking at the short

term gain of making these decisions

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and we haven't had the benefit of

being in the clinic and seeing what

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those impacts are, we, we don't truly

know what we're comparing against,

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when we do a risk benefit analysis

to say that in the long term, is

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this going to harm our relationships

with clients in the long term?

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Is this going to harm our

relationships with our staff?

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, What is our retention rate currently?

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And things along those lines that are

really important when we talk about.

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Financial health, not just the idea of

being able to perform as well as possible.

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I have this idea, I wanna

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see if you buy into it.

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So I have this idea that

there's two kinds of people.

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In the industry, there's medicine

people and there's operations people.

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And it's not just like

what your job title is.

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, it's a worldview, I think.

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I think that medicine, people want

to do medicine and operations.

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People want to get medicine

done, and those sounds similar,

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but they're really not.

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And so my take on this is medicine.

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People see the world through

the lens of The goal is to do

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the medicine and the operations.

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People see the world through a

whole different lens of we want to

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accomplish this outcome and, and.

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I, I, I think that it's more

than just like priority.

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I think it's more than your priorities.

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I think it's more than idea.

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I think they're really

different worldviews.

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But as I'm listening to you talk

about this, you're setting this up.

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It seems like you might disagree

and sort of say it's really about

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the experiences But I'm not sure.

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So, Josh, let me ask you that.

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Do you buy my idea?

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That medicine people and operations

people have fundamentally different

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worldviews in, in a lot of cases?

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Or do you think that they're more similar

really than I do, and it's really a matter

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of just, , what experiences have you had?

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the individuals that tend to practice

at the clinic level versus those

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that are, are not practicing at the

clinic level, are more in the mindset

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of, of getting the medicine done?

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It's not even at the clinic.

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It's not even at the,

clinic level necessarily.

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I, I think that, my thought is if you've

been trained in medicine and, , I think

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if you've been trained in medicine

and you, talk to the pet owners.

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I think that you look at medicine a

certain way, which is actually the

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individual patient is the focal point.

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And what the top priority is.

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And I think if you're in operations,

by definition, you tend to think

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less about the individual patient and

more about moving patients at scale.

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And those two things are just different.

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You know what I mean?

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It's hard to explain.

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How often do you get conflict, because

I'm talking about when you say we need to.

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We need to shorten appointment links.

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I am thinking about the specific pet

owner that has lots of questions,

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you know, and really needs her time

, and what that's gonna do to her.

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And you are thinking

about the, you know, 125.

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Clients that we see in a day and how

we move those people through there.

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And I feel like there's a lot of

inherent tension because those two just

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worldviews just ways of looking at things.

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They're, they're just,

they're naturally different.

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Do you, do you kind of buy into that?

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I definitely buy into that I, and

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I honestly think that it works

in conjunction with what I'm

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If you have individuals that or

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just have a tendency, this isn't

about this is almost like a, a

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subconscious bias of some sort, right?

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This isn't about like right

or wrong or good or bad.

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This is just plainly about what that

individual is really good at doing, right?

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And so if you take that idea and you

put them in a situation, whether it

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be, headquarters, where you have all

of the operational leaders, all of

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the medical leaders, all the financial

people working in one setting, that.

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They've never been in the clinic

before to be able to say, no.

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These are individuals, these

are individual patients.

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These are individual teammates.

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These are individual clients.

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it's not as simple as like reading

it off of study card or a flashcard,

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324: Yeah.

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is, this is more of a soft skill and

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understanding how we communicate and

how we have relationships with each

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other is that if we aren't understanding

just at a very basic level, that we are

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individuals, all of us in this process,

even if you're managing hundreds of

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people at once, that when you lose that

people piece or you never strive to

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get it in in the first place because

where you were previously working

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really didn't require it because you

were working in a retail setting where.

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, You're moving products that are, things

that people are buying on a regular

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basis that aren't necessarily always

transferable to a medicine setting.

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, Especially when we talk about

things like, sick cases and,

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and things along those lines.

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We still have to collect that data.

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We still have to make sure that

we're comparing it appropriately

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and seeing that we're growing

in the scale that we want to.

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The idea that's the only thing that we're

focusing on and we're not, and we're not

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keeping the individual in mind is, is the

direction that I don't want to see us go.

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And, and I do feel that part of the

reason why I feel we're going in that

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direction is because I have seen a lot

of individuals coming from outside of the

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industry in those roles that, that just

haven't had the pleasure of being able

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to see what's done on a day-to-day basis.

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They're told and they

understand maybe at a, at a.

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Higher level and they come

and visit here or there.

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But to understand like what

happens when have a okay, we want

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to go to 15 minute appointments.

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. Are we gonna have that conversation and,

and not, and not have , the team support

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that's needed to accommodate that?

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Right.

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Like you're talking about the idea

of, well, what happens when a client

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comes in that wants to talk to me

for 20, 30 minutes about a really,

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complicated case and they have the

right to do so because their pet

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does have a lot of things going on.

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Do you have a team that's supporting

you that, that allows that 15 minute,

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booking area , to match what you're

looking for productivity wise?

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Because if you're not paying attention

to that, you're thinking about , that

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performance which is important.

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, But you're not thinking about the

individual which, which takes away

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from sustainability in the long term,

whether it's because of your team burning

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out or because your clientele lose

their relationship with your clinic.

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324:

I like this idea the

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sustainability and the burnout.

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I think That's really interesting.

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When I was thinking about having you

on and sort of talking about this,

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I was really just kind of enjoying

playing with the idea of some

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sort of an onboarding for people.

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People who are not from

within vet medicine and kind

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of what does that look like?

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, And the question I had that I think

is really important is, what are we

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actually wanting people to learn?

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What are we onboarding 'em to?

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I don't think that it makes any

sense for the regional director

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to know how to draw blood.

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You know what I mean?

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I don't think it makes any sense

for them to know how to clean cages.

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I don't think it's that, and I don't think

when we talk about those sorts of things

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that's not what we're talking about.

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And so I, I think it's becoming, I

think the answer's becoming much more

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clear here, which I think is good, but.

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What would be if you were

actually gonna do this?

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And I said to you, all right, Josh,

we're gonna make this onboarding

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program for regional directors that

have not, you know, worked in practice

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before, and they're, coming over , from

Target or Amazon or Google, and I

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want you to onboard this person.

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What do you see as the objectives

for the onboarding specifically?

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Because it can't be just to spend time.

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And , it can't be just to spend time,

you know, in the clinic, and it can't be.

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They should learn effective, safe

animal patient restraint like that.

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I like that.

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Doesn't make sense.

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I don't need the guy from Google who's,

you know, who's gonna work at the regional

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level to be able to restrain pets.

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But I do, I'm buying a lot of what

you're saying about the benefits

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of sort of spending that time.

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And so, yeah.

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When I put it to you like that, and if I

said to you, what would be the objectives

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of your training, tell me about, like,

how would you I don't, I don't mean again.

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I don't know how deep you can go into the

weeds of just talking off the cuff like

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this, but like what does that look like?

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How do you put that together?

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What are the goals?

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a big lens first I will argue that part of

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this can be them just being in the clinic.

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324: Okay.

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squadcaster-319f_1_02-06-2026_132324:

that is because if they, if the work

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that they're doing require a location.

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and they're not, say, working from afar.

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Like if you're a remote

employee and you're

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and miles away , from where the clinic

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locations are, you know, there's

obviously going to be, situations

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where that's not going to work.

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when it works out.

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have the opportunity to do the same

things that you would do onboarding

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in a setting where there's a clinic

and there's an office space where

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you can spend the time there.

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So I will just start off by saying

it is a very easy pivot, just from

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the point of view of, being able to

see what it is that you're managing.

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And I, and I believe that from a,

a managerial, you know, standpoint

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is that, if you want to truly lead.

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can't lead something that

you've never lived, you

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324: Hmm.

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to know how to pull blood.

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I don't mean that you have to

learn how to restrain an animal.

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What I'm talking about is just simply

context, understanding that maybe, you

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don't need to know how to draw blood,

but you maybe you want to know how long

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it takes to get through an appointment

that has a full workup when you have

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one team member with the veterinarian

versus two members versus three members.

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I personally think that it's really,

really important to, . Have at least

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like a half hour a week where you're

half hour to an hour a week where they

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are actually shadowing a doctor, not

so that they understand medicine, not

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so that they understand why or or what

it is that they're planning on doing,

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but so that they understand the context

of what it is that they are managing.

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Just like any other leadership

role, you don't have to know.

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The skills of what you're managing, but

you absolutely have to know the context.

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Otherwise you're not going to create

the relationships that allow , for

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coaching to, to adjust , to a greater

performance and, to create the

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relationships that, have a, positive

impact on, things like, the employees

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that, are doing really good work for

you, working for you for a long time.

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324: Yeah.

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I think I can get into this bit of

bite-size exposure therapy as well.

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I think that makes sense to me.

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I think I was originally imagining

like a mandatory Hallmark movie where

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they were just put into the, that

clinic and they had to stay there

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until they had a change of heart.

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You know what I mean?

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stethoscope.

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324: Yeah.

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Until they met the pet owner

that changed it all for them.

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And I was like, boy, that

sounds like a long way to go.

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But I do, I, I like the idea of if

you're going to run this, you should be

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exposed and re-exposed to the context.

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, and I actually kinda like the idea of,

of some sort of ongoing exposure to

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what's happening in the practice because.

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I do believe that people forget, if

you're a veterinarian and you don't

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go into the clinic for five years, you

don't really remember what it's like.

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You do, but you don't really

remember how the chaos feels.

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You don't remember the stress.

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On the shoulders of the people around

you and just seeing it on them.

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Like those are, they're subtle things

that, you actually feel when you're there.

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It's like practice has a feel to

it , and that's the first thing to go.

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You can remember the stories from when

you were there, but it's not the same

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as getting in there and feeling it.

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squadcaster-319f_1_02-06-2026_132324: Or

maybe you do remember, and you're going

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through, you know, you're climbing the

ladder as like a, veterinarian that's five

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to 10 years out, and you finally get to

the point where you're in leadership , and

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you're maybe ready to make change, but

everyone you wants to make an adjustment

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because they see the opportunity for.

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Improvement , for

performance, productivity.

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You're sitting there and you're like, do

I want to be the bad guy that wants to

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tell everyone that this is never going

to work because like of X, Y, and Z?

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and I think it's, it is definitely funny,

but at the same time, I know it happens.

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324: yeah.

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Oh, it definitely does.

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squadcaster-319f_1_02-06-2026_132324:

happens and.

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That's also why it's so important

that these organizations allow for

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an equal amount , of leadership that

is coming from the veterinary world

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as well as focusing on the finances.

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Because I will never argue

that veterinarians are the

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strongest, , financial wizards

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324:

Oh yeah.

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squadcaster-319f_1_02-06-2026_132324:

that's not what I'm here to say.

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Right?

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Like I, I think that , it's just important

that we understand that if we're going

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to take in the skills that come from

outside of this industry, that we

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also understand that there are still.

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Skills that, that come from this industry

when it comes to leadership and management

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and, and context is a huge part of that.

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324:

Well, I was gonna ask you that question.

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I had the, I had, the idea of, is

the flip side also a good thing?

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Should we have everyone who works

with the animals on the floor, make

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payroll one time and like set the

clinic schedule and make sure the

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inventory is there because, , yeah,

it's no shade on the operations people.

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They've got real skills and

like, honestly, , I think

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the best thing would be.

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If the medicine people had to do like an

operations onboarding of like, look guys,

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this is how the sausage is actually made

and this is how we, this is how we pay

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the bills and this is what it means when

you want to have, you know, X, Y, and z

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, in the inventory and not run out of it.

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And this is how we set

the employee schedule.

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And so I do think that that's fun.

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I've also got, I got this idea

that you sort of hit on that I

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think is really very interesting.

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Like, I think that to some degree,

to some level medicine people.

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Kind of think the

operations people are evil.

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Operations people to some

degree at some level, kind of

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think medicine people are dumb.

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, Like they're super book

smart, but they, yeah.

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I mean, again, I didn't say

that with love, but to both.

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But it's like you're

going back to the meeting.

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People are like, guys, we're, we're

gonna increase revenue by 20%.

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And the medicine people are like, Ew.

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And then the medicine people are

like, yeah, nobody, everyone's

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gonna hate this and they're gonna.

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If they're, we're gonna have

massive retention problems.

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And I think the operations

people are like, God, those

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medicine people don't get it.

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Like, why don't they see that this is

required to, to pay everyone's salary?

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think it, that's why it came with that

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worldview idea is I think that there's

a fundamental disconnect of kind of.

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Medicine people kind of think ops

people are evil and ops people kind

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of think medicine people are dumb

and they just don't get it, you know?

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And, and so anyway, I, I, but I I think

what initially excited me about your

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idea is just at a theoretical level,

I think it's fun to think about how do

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we get these people to see each other?

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And I really think that effective

collaborations between operations

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and medicine is the biggest

opportunity in vet medicine now.

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And I think it's what separates,

, whether it's an individual clinic

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or a big organization, I think it

separates the winners from the losers

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and the ones that are sustainable is.

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Do your medicine people have a voice in

operations and do the operations people

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have a voice that gets heard in medicine?

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I, I, I, I don't think that's ever

been more important than right now,

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and I don't think the balance has ever

shifted more than it has recently.

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To your point, there's a lot of people

coming into the industry, especially

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coming into the industry at higher levels

that have pure operations backgrounds

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and no medicine backgrounds, and it's.

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Maintaining that connection and,

getting the two groups to see each

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other much less work together.

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I think that that's really vital and I, I

don't think that it's happening naturally,

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organically in a lot, in a lot of groups.

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squadcaster-319f_1_02-06-2026_132324:

Right, because The idea of like,

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separating the two and keeping distance

between the two is the same idea, right?

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You lose context, you lose the idea

of why the other is so important and.

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If you are feeling like the other is

the enemy, you're going to be less

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likely to work together because of it.

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whether you're thinking about it or

not, , you're not going to collaborate.

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And, and that's the real shame is that the

two groups do exist so that they, there

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is the most potential for success, right.

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324:

Yeah, I love it.

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Dr.

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Josh Rosen, where can

people find you online?

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squadcaster-319f_1_02-06-2026_132324:

Thank you so much for having me,

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Andy, and, , find me on Instagram.

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Um, there most often.

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Also on, , TikTok, , Dr.

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Josh, that's D-O-G-T-O-R-J-O-S-H.

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You can also email me, , josh@drjosh.com,

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whether it's to talk about this

topic, talk about clinical empathy and

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communication and veterinary medicine,

if you have, you know, clinic needs

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from relief standards, whatever.

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Whatever you wanna reach

out about, I'm here for it.

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Thank you so much again for having me.

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dr--andy-roark-_1_02-06-2026_132324: No.

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Thanks so much for being here, guys.

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I'll link all that stuff up

in the show notes as well.

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Josh, thanks for being here, gang.

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Thanks for listening to everybody.

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We'll talk to you soon.

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squadcaster-319f_1_02-06-2026_132324:

Have a good one.

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That's what I got guys.

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Thanks, , to, to Dr.

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Josh for being here.

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Thanks to you guys for being here.

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Guys.

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If you liked this episode, , like share,

subscribe, send it to all of your friends.

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Tell everybody , that

they should listen to it.

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If you're in charge of like a youth

sports team, Maybe that went too far.

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Look, just, be nice to us and tell

your friends that you like the

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podcast and that's how the show grows.

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Anyway, guys, that's all I got today.

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Take care of yourselves, gang.

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I'll talk to you later on.

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Bye.

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