The Derm Vet Podcast

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Why should you focus on the skin barrier? Why are dermatologists so passionate about it?  Find out on this week's episode of The Derm Vet podcast!

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Client communication can be difficult in chronic dermatology cases. Especially with so much misinformation available to clients from other sources.  Learn how to be on the offense (not defense with clients)... and how this can change your happiness managing dermatology cases.

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! What does a complete ear exam look like? What order of steps should occur? What if the pet is wiggly? Find out a quick, efficient way to evaluate the pinna, vertical canal, horizontal canal and tympanum of a dog and cat on this week's episode of The Derm Vet podcast!

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Diet trials in puppies... When do you consider it? What approach should you take with the owner? What options are available? What if the owner doesn't want to do a full workup in the dog with ear infections? Diet trials are challenging enough... but it can be especially overwhelming for an owner with a new puppy. Check out this week&...

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Life as a vet parent is difficult and it doesn't look the same for everybody. Community and not comparing to others is so vital. I welcome back my friend Dr. Tannetje Crocker to talk about our experiences as vet moms. The highs, the lows, the guilt and our advice.

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! What do the emergency doctor and dermatologist have in common? Probably more than you think!  With hospitals being so busy, how can you manage an ear infection at 2am? What derm medications should be on an ER shelf? Welcome my good friend Dr. Tannetje Crocker as we discuss dermatology in the ER.

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Sure, dermatologists manage a lot of allergies. However, there are signs that should raise a red flag that you AREN'T dealing with an allergic patient?  Distribution of lesions seem off? The history doesn't jive with allergies? Not responding to traditional therapies? Tune into this week's episode of the podcast to learn mo...

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! A very common history we receive from owners... "Apoquel used to work great! But now it doesn't control my dog's itch." Do dogs really become immune to Apoquel or other anti-itch drugs? Or could there be other reasons itch fails to be controlled by the medication over time? Find out the top 3 reasons we can see anti-it...

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! What are five things you can do to improve your veterinary practice for the year? How about reigniting your passion for veterinary medicine? Check out these simple challenges you can do throughout the year to love what you do.

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! 2022 has been quite a year! Here is the annual wrap up episode of The Derm Vet podcast. Highlighting the top things you all have learned from the podcast this year when I asked on social media. Thanks for another wonderful year! 

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! So... you have ruled out flea and food allergy and now it is time for THE talk. The chronic, lifelong, multimodal therapy required atopic dermatitis talk? For such a common disease, how come this spiel can be so difficult?  Check out this week's episode of The Derm Vet podcast for tips and tricks!

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Who is ready for the next allergy spiel???? This is about the dreaded FOOD TALK. How do you approach this conversation if you know the owner will be hesitant to switch foods? What about all the opinions regarding pet food? Check out this week's episode of the podcast!

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Kicking off our first topic in this allergy spiels series: THE FLEA TALK.  Get nervous when you have to bring up starting flea prevention to a client? What about including other pets in the household? What if the client isn't seeing fleas? Check out this week's episode of the podcast!

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! When asked on social media what topics you would covered in the podcast... many of you asked for allergy spiels. How do I communicate with owners of allergic pets? How do I convince owners to start flea prevention even if they don't see fleas? How do you stop dreading the food allergy talk? This is an introduction to client communica...

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! This podcast episode is releasing on Thanksgiving 2022 in the US. Find out the things I am thankful for in veterinary dermatology... both medical and non-medical!

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! A pustule is a common dermatologic lesion. Though it is often related to a secondary pyoderma, there are other differentials that can cause a pustule. From recognizing it clinically, sampling for diagnostics and coming up with appropriate differentials, learn all about pustules in this episode of the podcast!

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Papules are often overlooked clinical lesions. These small red dots can be essential to identify during the dermatologic examination.  Though they are often due to bacterial infection, there are other differentials that should be on your list. This episode will review important diagnostics and things to consider when seeing papules on exa...

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Comedones (or blackheads) are not as common as other dermatologic clinical signs. But they can be really important to identify and the differentials can be quite unique. Learn what a comedo actually is and what diseases you want to be thinking about in this episode of the podcast!

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Continuing our journey in lesions. Find out what scaling is and what differentials should be on your list. It can often happen with crusting (covered last week) but depending on the presentation there are certain diseases that should come to mind.

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! What is a crust? What differentials are on our list with a crusting disease? Is it primary or secondary?  These are all the questions we go over on this week's episode of The Derm Vet podcast!

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Chlorhexidine... very commonly used ingredient in veterinary medicine. BUT... do you know the mechanism of action? What percentage is proven to be effective for pyoderma? Did you know chlorhexidine resistance has been reported? Check out this week's episode of the podcast.

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Diagnosis of canine atopic dermatitis... it can be time consuming to do all the rule outs (though necessary). But there is criteria that can make it very likely (or unlikely) that you are dealing with canine atopic dermatitis.  Check out this week's episode of the podcast for the hints!

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Managing canine atopic dermatitis long-term can be difficult and frustrating. Between managing flares and client education there can be a lot to juggle. Today's podcast welcomes Fiona Bateman, BVSc, MANZCVS, DACVD. She is a senior veterinary dermatologist for Zoetis. We discuss how to work with clients to manage these chronic cases,...

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! It is one of the biggest debates in veterinary dermatology. Are ear cultures useful? Check out this week's podcast to hear why this is a hot topic and my thoughts on it. 

Send me a derm question or story through text or voicemail! Welcome Dr. Karen Shenoy to the podcast! She is the Chief Veterinary Officer for Hills US. We discuss Hill's Global Symposium which is focusing on dermatology this year! Dr. Shenoy and I will be co-hosting this event which contains a bunch of amazing speakers.  Register at hillsglobalsymposium.com! It is free and will be recorded so...