The Cairn Podcast: Marking the Trail for Veterinarians

Join Drs. Corinne, Magdalena and Dan as we welcome back Gretchen Sauer, MBA, LSSGB. We discuss the challenges of maintaining consistency and fairness in the workplace, including how consistency and fairness shape workplace culture, why fairness may not always mean "equal", challenges faced by leaders in maintaining consistency, strategies for increasing fairness in decision making, and m...

Join Drs. Corinne, Magdalena and Dan, as we welcome Steven L. Marks, BVSc, MS, DACVIM (SAIM). Dr. Marks is the Dean of Clemson's College of Veterinary Medicine, set to welcome its first class in the Fall of 2026. We discuss Dr. Marks' vision for Clemson, the future of veterinary medicine, community and collaboration, the ideal setting of Clemson's campus to foster a veterinary educa...

Join us as we discuss Dr. Dan's recent trip to Minneapolis for the 2024 ACVIM convention. 2024 ACVIM Forum

Join Dr. Corinne and Dr. Dan as we sit down with Dr. Tim Loonam to discuss the spectrum of care in veterinary medicine, including some amazing opportunities being provided by The Stanton Foundation . We distinguish where spectrum of care deviates from incremental care, and standard of care. We explore how veterinarians shepherd clients through the challenges of disease diagnosis and treatment, fos...

Ready to tackle one of the trickiest issues in pet care? Join Dr. Corinne and Dr. Dan as we discuss urinary incontinence in dogs. We review the ACVIM consensus statement on urinary incontinence published this past December, including neurophysiology, lesion localization, recommended diagnostics, and the latest treatment options and practical tips for managing these frustrating cases! Don’t miss ou...

Join us with Dr. Laura Smallwood as we discuss how to make any activity a meditation practice. We explore how each of us has attempted to adapt formal meditation practices to day-to-day situations in work and life, and whether informal practice can be enough. Upcoming courses with Dr. Smallwood: Atlanta Mindfulness has started a Sunday Evening Meditation Community which meets at 4 pm every Sunday...

Join Drs. Corinne and Dan as we speak with Colin Carr, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of CARR: Healthcare Real Estate Experts Nationwide. CARR is the nation’s leading provider of commercial real estate services for healthcare tenants and buyers, and has agents in all 50 fifty states as well as Canada. Colin has been involved in commercial real estate for over two decades and has personall...

Join Drs. Corinne, Magdalena and Dan as we welcome back Gretchen Sauer, MBA, LSSGB. We discuss why clear communication is so vital in the professional setting, how to address common misunderstandings and conflicts arising from unclear expectations, how to engage employees in a collaborative approach, fighting the 'blame game', and much more.

Join Dr. Corinne and Dr. Dan as they discuss how to get the most out of continuing education opportunities. The doctors cover how to prepare for success and select the best conference for you, strategic session selection, networking and collaboration, navigating the exhibition hall, self care and reflection, and post convention implementation.

Join us as we welcome Dr. Teresa DeFrancesco DVM, DACVECC,  and DACVIM (cardiology). Dr. DeFrancesco reviews some recent publications to stimulate some fun discussion and help us reconsider some commonly held  assumptions in treating our patients, such as...How about having owners assist in recovery, or stopping antibiotics sooner then you might think is necessary? Listen in with the wonderful Dr....

Join us as we discuss our personal meditation experiences with Dr. Laura Smallwood. We share what first drew us to meditation as well as what has kept us practicing. Additionally, we discuss the personal benefits we have observed as well as periods when our practice has been less consistent, or we managed to "fall off the cushion".  We also explore potential benefits of going on retreat,...

Join us for Part 2 of this exciting discussion with Dr. Kristin Welch, DVM, DACVECC. Dr. Welch is the founder and Chief Criticalist at DVM-Stat , and previously helped grow the Southeast’s first VECCS Level I Emergency and Critical Care certified hospital as the Chief of Emergency and Critical Care when she moved to Charleston, SC following her residency at Tufts University. This is a must-listen...

Join us for Part 1 of this epic two-part series as we welcome Dr. Kristin Welch, DVM, DACVECC. Dr. Welch is the founder and Chief Criticalist at DVM-Stat , and previously helped grow the Southeast’s first VECCS Level I Emergency and Critical Care certified hospital as the Chief of Emergency and Critical Care when she moved to Charleston, SC following her residency at Tufts University. This is a mu...

Join us for Part 2 of the epic ALKP discussion! Today we conclude our discussion with Dr. Tristan Weinkle, DVM, DACVIM board certified in small animal internal medicine (SAIM), private practice clinician, and owner/founder of Sonant Veterinary Imaging and Education to talk about the mysteries of the liver, focusing on diseases that influence ALKP dominant enzymology. Episode Resources and Referenc...

Join us as we meet at the rounds table with Dr. Tristan Weinkle, DVM, DACVIM board certified in small animal internal medicine (SAIM), private practice clinician, and owner/founder of Sonant Veterinary Imaging and Education to talk about the mysteries of the liver, focusing on diseases that influence ALKP dominant enzymology. This isn’t just vacuolar hepatopathy and Cushing’s, we’ll be delving int...

Join Drs. Corinne, Magdalena and Dan as we welcome Gretchen Sauer, MBA, LSSGB. We discuss nurturing gratitude within the workplace among colleagues and clients. We explore why gratitude is important for workplace culture with an open discussion on the positive effects of expressing and receiving gratitude, and how to foster a culture of gratitude. Episode Resources and Recommendations: Thinking, F...

Join us as we embark on an exciting whirlwind tour of personalized medicine in companion animals, and how it may change the future of veterinary medicine as it enables us to focus more on individual patients instead of population medicine assumptions. Before highlighting a recent review article in the Veterinary Clinics of North America (The Role of Personalized Medicine in Companion Animal Cardio...

Is it neuro or ortho? Join us as we sit down with Dr. Bill Draper, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology). Dr. Draper is a small animal neurologist and medical director of BluePearl Columbia, and he joins us to discuss the challenges in assessing lameness in one's veterinary patients. Listen in as Dr. Draper presents his practical approach to assessing lameness with lots of tips and tricks that can help us...

Happy New Year! Join Dr. Corinne, Dr. Dan and Dr. Magdalena in the studio as we take a look forward at what we have in store for 2024. Thank you for being a part of this journey with us!

Join us for our final podcast of 2023 as we look back on The Cairn Podcast's first year! Dr. Corinne and Dr. Dan reflect upon this past year's highlights, what we've learned, and what to look forward to in 2024.  Thank you so much for starting this journey with us, and Happy New Year!

Join us as we discuss Equanimity with Dr. Laura Smallwood. Equanimity is the final heart virtue and can be thought of as the ability to be with things as they are, or calm in the face of extremes whether they be good or bad. This is not a passive stance on life, but rather an active choice to engage with whatever the present moment brings, as opposed to passivity which is a form of avoidance. We d...

 Join us as we discuss the topic of Joy with Dr. Laura Smallwood. Joy, and specifically Sympathetic Joy, is the third of the four heart virtues and involves rejoicing in the happiness and good fortune of someone else. We discuss how true happiness is a skill that we can cultivate in ourselves, but why pursuit of happiness that is dependent on external circumstances is counterproductive. When we ar...

Viruses, Fungi, and Nematodes, Oh my! Wait, it’s not just another bacterial UTI? Get out of the Kingdom Bacteria, and join Corinne and Dan as they entertain all the "zebras" that may cause cystitis in dogs and cats. We also include a brief discussion of organisms that more commonly cause glomerulonephritis rather than primary cystitis. This is a great review of a number of infectious org...

 Are you ready to apply the principles of mindfulness in how we speak (or refrain from speaking) to others? Just in time to prepare for those touchy family holiday discussions, we invite you to listen as we discuss the principles of mindful speech with Dr. Laura Smallwood. Specifically, what guidelines can we follow in selecting for mindful speech, and how do we execute it? Guidelines include choo...

Join Dr. Laura Smallwood as we discuss compassion. Compassion starts with kindness, but also adds empathy, or as Dr. Laura states "I think of compassion as what happens when kindness meets up with a difficult or painful situation." We discuss how compassion starts with the recognition of suffering, and is as simple as a heartfelt desire for the person experiencing suffering to be free fr...