Veterinary Services Offered by CheckOut Vet

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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and make that appointment, start that relationship, that first visit. Also,
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com all one word tel for number six oh eight
three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's six oh eight
three one eight sixty seven hundred. And joining us this
morning is doctor Marty Greer. Of course, doctor Greer is

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recognized as Veterinarian of the Year from the Westminster Kennel Club.
Doctor Greer, how you doing today.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I'm doing great. It's good. It's beautiful weather, it's such
it's such a great time of year.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
It is a great time a year, and it's great
to have you on with us this morning. And we're
going to talk a little bit about different services when
it comes to veterinary care. And I'm kind of talking
a little bit about too, about the structure of checkout
veterinary check in VET. Of course, you've got the clinic
in Marshall, You've got the clinic in Lamira as well.
But before we kind of get into the specifics of those,
I just want to kind of help people and myself

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included as well, in this kind of understand veterinary care
and kind of what exactly you know, things like we
hear about, you know, like a wellness or a preventative
care and those type of exams. That's kind of the
correct me if I'm wrong, that's kind of like the
most basic part of veterinary care. Am I am? I
off on that, doctor, No.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
You're absolutely right. It's the routine care. It's the annual
vaccination visit with a wellness exam. So we're doing a
complete physical exam, listening to the heart, looking in the ears,
looking at the teeth, feeling the abdomen, checking the lymph nodes,
feeling for lumps and bumps, checking the coat, the body structure,
the physical structure, the weight of the dog, how they're

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orthopedically put together or so you know, are they are
they walking normally? All those pieces are really important and
sometimes as owners, little things get missed or misinterpreted.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
The inter thing you say that too, is you know
we think about like I know, you know from this
day when people you don't think we're going to check
out bet or wherever. I know, one of the things
the first things that you do is you throw your pet
on the scale. For example, pet owners, we don't often
notice those fluctuations and uh uh, the scale scales don't lie,
do they doctor?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well, no, unfortunately not. I would like to believe that
they do when it's me and the doctor, but that's
a different conversation. So yeah, that's a really important number
for us. Not only does it help us to know
what their weight is, if they gained, if they lost
you know, is there anything wrong with the pet, because
typically anything that changes their physical condition, their physical health,

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will alter their weight. If they've gained weight, it may
be that they've just put on too much weight. It
maybe that they're retaining fluid for some kind of a
physical reason. If they've lost weight, we need to be
aware of that. If they've got something wrong with their
kidneys or liver or something that you haven't really noticed
any other changes, but they suddenly start to lose weight.
Maybe cancer. There's a lot of reasons that dogs will

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drop weight, castles drop weight. Cats, especially man they're sneaky
little creatures. You tend not to really notice anything because
it's so slow and gradual, and until one of your
friends comes over and looks at your cat and says,
did you notice cities have the size it used to be?
You might have completely been unaware of it because it's
gradual and you just don't see it happening. So weight's

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really important. It's also important when we're calculating drug dosice.
We have all of our free in chicken heart room
preventives are in categories twenty you know, twenty four to
the forty four pounds or you know, they have all
these weight ranges, so we need to make sure that
they're getting the right dose of medication. But unlike human
medicine other than pediatrics, we calculate all of our drugs

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based on a weight basis, so we multi apply their
weight times either the number of pounds or a number
of pilgrams that they are to calculate the dose in people,
you go in and they say your dose is five
hundred milligrams. It doesn't matter a few weigh one hundred
and twenty pounds or two hundred and forty pounds. You
get five hundred milligrams, which doesn't make a lot of sense,
but that's sort of the way human medicine is structured.

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And I'm not sure to change that.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
You've you've got you've got pets covered, and we're gonna,
I know it's you're gonna make You're gonna make lives
better for our pets every single day. As we talk
this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary Online,
checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com, so
wellness preventative. And then we kind of get into like
different types of tools, different types of diagnostics, and those

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are those are things that are that are available and
uh and can be quite quite useful as well, can't
they doctor?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Right? And we have a lot of blood panels and
other tests that we do, urine samples, fegal samples looking
for parasites, and then blood samples. We do an array
of different panels, but we can do all those that
check out and at most veterinary clinics, you just need
a blood sample. We can send it in. We can
check their blood counts the red blood cell, white blood cell,
and platelets. We can check their organ function with liver

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and kidney and electrolytes, and then we can check thyroid levels.
So all those things are really simple things for us
to run blood on, and a lot of us do
those routinely. It's a really important test. As long as
you're coming in and getting your heart room test. Anyway,
you have to draw blood for it. Heartroom is always
a blood test. A lot of people misunderstand whether it's
a heart room test or a fecal test, but it's

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a blood test for heartwroom and it also checks for
the kickboard diseases, lime disease, ataplasmosa, centerlichia, and I will
tell you in our practices at least once a day
we see a positive dog on one of those tests.
So it's so common that we really need to be
doing those cheating a screening and cheapers. As long as
we're drawing blood, let's draw on us extra that we
can put it in a tube, send it to the

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lab and for like an extra one hundred dollars, you
can get a complete panel of all the lab work
on your dog or cat and then know what the
status of their organ function is. And there's no other
way to tell some of those things. You know, if
you come in and your pet is drinking more than usual,
or losing weight or doing some of these things, they're
not very specific changes, so it's very difficult without some

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blood work for us to know what's going on. And
they're simple if we're going to draw the blood anyway,
an extra you know, tea spooter so isn't going to
make any difference to your pets, but it sure can
make a difference in how we handle their care and
how you approach their medical care as well.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
It's pretty amazing. It's pretty amazing what's able to be done.
And you mentioned, you know, drawing a little extra blood
and those tests and just how valuable they are to
your pet's overall health. When you were talking about that too, doctors,
something that popped into my head. Do you mention things
like weight loss or drinking water? And I start thinking
about as humans, you know, the difficulty with doctor Google,
with people googling and thinking for their own ailments that

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they may have found a solution. I've got a guess
on some level, and I know it's a little off topic,
but I do you do you see that as well
in the pat world, where people are like rather than
actually getting a proper diagnosis simply logging onto a computer
and thinking that, oh, doctor Google's got it all figured out.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, I don't think a lot of times they're trying
to substitute it. I think they're just trying to get
a jumpstart on what's going on so they understand better.
And it's it's really not a bad idea to have
some general knowledge about it. But please don't think that
you've diagnosed some you know, rare and exotic disease in
your pet by looking at doctor Google. Make sure that
you go in and get that veterinary input, with the

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way with the physical dam with the blood work or
the urine and the fecal you know, make sure that
you're getting that whole comprehensive look at things, because an
accurate diagnosis is absolutely critical to make sure that we're
treating correctly. And there's a lot of diseases that are
really easy to treat either with diet or medication as
long as we have a diagnosis. We can make a
huge impact in your dog's quality of life, your cat's

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length of life, all those pieces if we have the information.
So the wellness stuff that we can do at checkout
is going to be the physical exam, the bloodwork, the SECO,
the urine. We can do an ultrasound if we need
to clock to a urine sample, or take a look
at their abdomen. So there's a lot of things we
can do along with the vaccination stuff. Vaccines are really important,
but that's not the reason you come to the vet

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every year. You come to the vet every year because
we need to do their dam We need to make
sure that we've got all the components figured out. And
then the vaccines are like, oh yeah, and by the way,
you need a rabies vaccination. It's important, it's required by law,
but it is not the primary reason that we want
to see your path.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary
Online checkout vet dot com, that's checkout vet dot com
talking about some different services offered at veterinary clinics and
specifically we kind of break down check out vet, check
in vet as well as the clinic and marshal different
things at Checkout Veterinary that they offer to you as well.
Don't forget speaking of things to offer, and of course
great opportunities to start that relationship with a new VET

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with a great vet. At Checkout Veterinary, they are now
accepting an opportunity right now, they're accepting new patients and
that first visit, that exam it is free. Head on
over to checkout vet dot com or pick up phone.
Gave the call six oh eight three one eight sixty
seven hundred. That's six soh eight three one eight sixty
seven hundred. And're mentioning some diagnostic tools things like our
ultrasounds there. What about X rays? Do we see our

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X ray machines for pets? Are those are those fairly common?
Are those out there? How does how does that process work?

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Doctor? Oh? Oh yeah, And we have X ray machines
that three of our practices. We don't have it at checkout.
By design, it was intended to be outpatient wellness, so
we don't have it there. We are looking at changing
our hours at check in to Saturdays included, so that
we can do some additional diagnostics. But checkout was really
intended to be an outpatient wellness in and out efficient

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kind of process. So it's not meant to be a
full service veterinary clinic. We don't do surgery, we don't
do anesthesia. If you have, you know, small laceration because
the dog ran into a barred buyer fence, we can
probably handle that. But if your dog needs abdominal surgery,
needs a don little, needs to stay a neuter, that's
all going to happen to check in or Marshall. By design,
we did not intend for that to be done because

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that changes the whole workflow and the efficiency of getting
you in and out through the drive through. So the
drive through is really meant to be your convenient factor
of you're busy. You've got kids getting a soccer, you've
got grandma to get to the doctor, you've got grocery
shopping to do, You've got all the stuff, and so
if you're in that kind of mode that you need

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those things done, then the efficiency of doing the drive
through is absolutely perfect. There's no waiting room, there's no
hanging around, you know, waiting for somebody to come in
the room. You're in, you're out, and we can get
those services taking care of very efficiently. But at a
very high level, it's not like we're skipping anything. We
just didn't build the part of the building that requires

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the extra cost and the extra walking around in the
extra space that it takes to accommodate those in a
veterinary full service hospital. So it's not meant to be
full service. We have that our sister clinic and check
in by design.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Is that I think for for folks that maybe looking
for like a comparable, are thinking more like a like
your primary care physician for for your pet, is that
is that probably the best way to look at the
service that you And of course then then if you've
got to go urgent care those type of things, that's
for checkout vet and UH and that comes in as well.
As we talked this morning with doctor Marty Greer, it

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is a fantastic day to start that relationship at checkout Vet.
Mentioned how convenient it is and how it's designed very
particularly to make it convenient, make it easy, keep everybody comfortable,
everybody happy, making it a great experience for you and
your pet. They are now accepting new patients at checkout Vet.
You can learn more online about that great experience checkout
vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Great opportunity

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today to pick up phone, make that appointment six oh
eight three sixty seven hundred. That's six eight three one
eight sixty seven hundred. We're going to continue our conversation
with doctor Marty Greer next as Ask the Experts and
Checkout Veterinary continues right here on thirteen ten wu ibi
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vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Some great news.
They are accepting patients right now at Checkout Veterinary. You
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You can learn more online checkout vet dot com. That's

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checkout vet dot com. Talking this morning with doctor Mardy
Greer of Checkout Veterinary about different types of services offered
at at at the Veterinary's office. That the clinics, uh
what exactly that stuff all means, and doctor, I know,
one of the areas that we talk a bit about
has to do with oral hygiene dental care with your pets.

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And obviously when you get in for that exam, it's
a it's a big part of I've noticed vet. So
you guys like to look like to look at the tief,
don't you.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well, yeah, you know on most dogs. Yes, there's a
few dogs that aren't really all that interested in letting
us ee there gets a little bit sticky, you know,
there's a few of them that would take a cheap
shot at us. So I tend to use a pretzel
instead of my finger if it's a dog that wants
to take a little nibble off the end of my finger.
But yes, looking at the teeth, well, we look in
the mouth for multiple reasons. One is we check the

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color of the gums. Does the dog look like it's dehydrated,
Does it look like they're anemic? Does it look like
there's something going on in the general physical health of
the dog that we can only see by looking at
the gums. We can check hydration through feeling that the
gums are sticky or tacky. We can look for anemia
if the gums are pale. We can look for the
gums to be kind of a bluish or grayish color

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if they're not breathing very well or their heart's not
beating very well. So there's a lot of information that
we see just from that. And then yes, of course
we want to look at the teeth, and a lot
of people assume that teeth are just teeth. They don't
really think about the importance of overall oral health and
the health of the dog or the cat, and it's
really essential, just like with us. If we have poor
gental health, we're gonna have heart disease, we're gonna have

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kidney problems, we're gonna have just generally not great health.
I read a number of years ago that people who
floss their teeth live sixty years longer. Now it may
be more of a correlation than a causation. It may
be that people that flust their teeth are also doing
other things like exercising to take care of themselves. But nevertheless,
I've figured the only thing you have to do is
floster your teeth and you get six years. Like that's

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not very much exercise. I have to get you like
a six year length. So our pest. Really their overall
health is very dependent on their oral health as well.
So we're gonna look at their teeth and we're gonna
make recommendations for dental cleanings, maybe for extractions if the
teeth are loose or broken, and we don't take those
things lightly. It's not like, oh, let's just go in
and take an out of their teeth. It's really not
that much fun for us or the pet. But if

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we're not taking good care of their overall oral health,
we're not going to get the overall health of their
their body condition as well. Every February is dental health
month on the human side, and so the same things
apply to us as veterinary staff is we're going to
look at their teeth as well, and we're going to
have those conversations, is you really need anesthesia? We can't
do this awake. We need to get up under the

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gums to clean the teeth adequately. We probably are going
to need dental X rays and you know your pet
isn't going to hold that little piece of X ray
film between their feet. Will we take the X ray
without anesthesia? So those are important things for you to
know as well. And people tend to be reluctant to
anesthetize their pet. They're like, I don't really want to
do that, but it's so important. And once they've done

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the dental cleaning and the oral health care, the dental
surgery that needs to be done, they'll go home and
they'll say, oh, my gosh, like she feels so much better.
I should have done this a long time ago. So
really we need to look at their oral health as
an important component of longevity and of overall health.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
So and things like cleaning in that area doctor, is
that stuff that then would be done over at a
check in vet? Or how does how do the cleanings
and those type of things work? Right?

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Check In and Marshall can both handle those types of things.
And yes, veterinarians that do any kind of surgery and
anesthesia are also going to be prepared to general clintings
because a lot of people say like, okay, well where
do I go for that? Well, right here, you're here,
we can do that for you. And so veterinarians are
kind of interesting people compared to physicians. When my mom
was older and not feeling well, she had nine different physicians,

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nine physicians to take care of her Veterinarians pretty much
do it all. We do everything from surgery to dentistry,
to wellness, to vaccines to diagnostics. You know, we're much different,
more well rounded kind of care. So when you come in,
you get tale to teeth, take care. It's the whole body.

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We're not just going to look at one part of
your body. So I think that's really important that people
identify veterinarians as being really full serviced and really capable
of doing a lot of different things. We kind of laugh,
you know, we're like, yep, we do all the species.
We do all the stuff you know, humans like you
may see an orthopedic surgeon, you may see it on collagist,
you may see a cardiologist. Yeah, now we have all

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those specialties in veterinary medicine, but the vast majority of
veterinaries out there are going to be able to do
the full service piece of this and really do it
very well. So we're different. We're a different breed than
this position.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
That is, that is for sure, and I love it.
It's it's and it's I love that. You know, we
get a chance to do this each and every week,
and as we do the program with doctor Martin Greer.
Don't forget Mardy Greer. If you ever have a question,
you can always call in six o' eight three two
one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two one
thirteen ten. We've also had some fantastic emails come in
as well. You can of course email at checkout vet

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dot com. You can email from there. You can email
the station here as well. We'd love to hear from
you if you've got questions. It's also a great dat
to start that relationship at checkout vet. You can learn
more online checkout vet dot com. That's check out vet
dot com. As we're talking about different types of services
and on kind of understanding all of that stuff. One
of the areas that we haven't talked about, which is
one that you want to be planning and preparing for

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and hope you never need to use, which is emergency
care and having and having an understanding of where to
take your pet, information to bring, having things ready. What's
kind of the guidance on that area of things, doctor, So.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
We'll do urgent care at checkout and check in as
well as at Marshall. So anything that's minor and needs
to be seen great. If you're not sure come on in.
If it's an emergency and we feel like it's better
seen by a specialist, or you need overnight nursing care,
we're going to send you on to an emergency clinic.
That'll be the ved School. That'll be one of several
emergency clinics in the Madison area. If you need something

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reproductively that's an emergency, we're going to send you to
Lamira because we're full service there. We're seven days a
week at Lamira and the drive through at check in
or checkout, so we have the ability to do seven
day a week care at those two facilities. We're not
overnight caroit either one, but we're seven day a week.
So if you have a dog that's having any kind
of an issue, give us, call your cat, come on in,

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we'll take a look, and if it's more than we
can handle, we will then help you select the right
place for you to go based on their capacity and
their capabilities, because not all clinics are created equal. That's
the reason we have eight doctors is not all doctors
are created equal. We have some doctors that are really
good at cats and some doctors that are really good
at skin, and so you know those are the things

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that we're going to help you to sort out who
should you see. And then of course we have all
the personalities of the doctors, which I think is really
important because not everybody gets along with everybody, and you
may find one doctor that you absolutely adore and they
really click for you. In another one you're like, yeah,
well they were good, but it wasn't really my style.
So be sure that you take advantage of that variety

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that we can offer for you, that you don't feel
like you're just stuck with, Oh, this is the doctor
that they gave me. We all have our followers, our groupies,
and that's really important that you developed that relationship with
the doctor that you love and the staff that you
love so that we can provide those services. Well.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
I think the first show we ever did together, doctor,
I think you had said talked about the importance of relationships,
and folks may have noticed I always say, start that start,
your start that relationship is that's stuck with me that
first program that I took the time to write that
down because it is. It's great when you when you
reiterate and kind of point out how important that relationship
is and having a good connection It's a great day

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and a great opportunity as well with check out vet
right now accepting new patients. Great opportunity for you and
for your pet. You can learn more online the website
checkout vet dot com. That's check out vet dot com.
Telph number six soh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
That's six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred,
Doctor Greer. It's always great and enjoyable and so much
fun talking with you. You enjoy this great Dan. We'll do

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it all again soon.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Thank you, and.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
Again the website checkout vet dot com. Vicky McKenna, she
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