On today's episode of Blunt Dissection, we are doing something a little bit different. For the last 6 years, I have been interviewing people who are doing remarkable things in veterinary medicine. I thought for this year, given what we’ve been through in the last 3 months and given where my mind has taken me, it’s time to explore. New ways, new options, new models, and new business thinking that's out there. Why? That reason is pretty simple. We are in what seems like an unsustainable moment where we are haemorrhaging talent of all kinds out of the profession. This is against the backdrop of increased demand in terms of quantity and availability of service but also in terms of quality of service. We are haemorrhaging talent in the face of increased stress, which starts at university because of the soaring costs of education that are adding pressure into the undergraduate's life that simply did not exist for previous generations. And yet counter-balancing these things, the improvements. The vast improvements to the quality of life. Working hours per week have never been lower and we now speak openly, freely and widely about the mental health issues that have confronted this profession for generations. Again, this also plays out against a backdrop of sweeping changes to the ownership structure of veterinary practices. Gone are the days of independent practices as we move into the days of corporate medicine. The board rooms of today's and tomorrow's practices are now filled with shareholders whose commitment is to the ongoing financial viability and profit of those businesses. That's quite different to the commitments made in the boardroom for veterinary practices for the generations before where animal welfare was the primary driving factor. So it’s against this backdrop we explore what's going on in veterinary medicine and we look to the future, not the past, not the pain of the now but the innovation of tomorrow that might hold some keys and some answers.So for six episodes, we’re going to be exploring business models from around the world where people are challenging the status quo. So let's dive into the ideas from today, that may be niche but one day might just change veterinary medicine for the better. Our first guest is Dr. Sara Pizano. She works at Team Shelter USA, an organization that has transformed the way humane societies operate in the United States, now working with the Open Door Veterinary Collective, she's turned her attention to making veterinary care accessible to as many people as possible.The Open Door Veterinary Collective operates two practices, doing things very differently, and challenging the myth that people who can’t afford veterinary care aren’t worthy of veterinary care. There’s a lot to dig into here so let's jump right into the episode with the awesome Dr. Sara Pizano.