Tails from the Lab: A Veterinary Podcast

Podcast by Holly Brown, DVM, PhD, DACVP and Jessica Wilson-Hess, MS, CVT, VTS (SAIM)

Tails from the Lab: A Veterinary Podcast

Tails from the Lab is a storytelling podcast where two veterinary comrades entertain listeners with real cases and tall tales revolving around laboratory diagnostics. Names have been changed to protect the innocent, but the lab work is real. You can listen in the clinic on your lunch break, on your commute, or when you're hiding from your kids in the bathroom. With each episode, we hope to leave you a little smarter, a little brighter, and feeling more empowered in the lab.

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Latest episodes

15 September 2023

Tech Talk: Effusion Analysis (Part 1)

In this tech talk, Jessica flies solo and talks about the basics of the in-house fluid analysis.

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14:10

01 September 2023

"Mac"ximizing Diagnostics (Part 2): Effusion Confusion

Mac presented with acute abdominal pain, an irregular spleen, and possible lymphoma. Thing got even more interesting with a surprise finding on the blood film review, and now an effusion is detected on abdominal ultrasound. Follow the twist and turns of Mac's case as Jessica and Holly review the diagnostics that tie it all together. (Part 2 of 2)

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23:38

01 August 2023

"Mac"ximizing Diagnostics (Part 1): Blood Cell Conundrum

Mac presents with acute abdominal pain, an irregular spleen, and possible lymphoma. Things get even more interesting with a surprise finding on the blood film review. Follow the twist and turns of Mac's case as Jessica and Holly review the diagnostics that tie it all together. (Part 1 of 2)

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13:38

01 July 2023

Viper's Key to Success

Viper, the sometimes sweet / sometimes sour 1-year-old Bengal, suffered with recurrent diarrhea for months. After numerous hospital visits, a myriad of diagnostic tests, a variety of medications, and a poor quality of life for both Viper and his mom, we finally discover Viper's key to success.

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27:29

01 April 2023

The ABCs of APPs

Jessica and Holly unwrap some of the challenges in diagnosing and trending inflammatory disease in our veterinary patients and discuss the clinical application of acute phase protein measurement in such instances.

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28:41

15 March 2023

Not Off the Hook

Paxton was treated successfully for his steroid-responsive meningitis, but now he is re-presenting white as a ghost. Follow the laboratory diagnostics to understand what has happened, who/what is to blame, and why Paxton is not off the hook.

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25:45