Clinic trivia from today: for canine osteosarcoma pain relief, what palliative RT schedule do you use most — 3 or 4 fractions over about two weeks — and how long do your patients tend to stay comfortable afterward? I’m always grateful how these short courses can ease pain and give families meaningful time when curative treatment isn’t feasible.
And > do your patients tend to stay comfortable afterward? I’m always grateful how these short Same here — our 4 x 8 Gy twice-weekly over about 2 weeks gives most dogs 8–12 weeks of decent comfort, especially if we add an NSAID, gabapentin, and pamidronate. , a few crash back around week 6; if travel or fracture risk is a worry I’ll switch to 3 larger fractions.
What’s worked for me on remote gigs is asking for a 10–15 min “shadow via Zoom” of their triage workflow — it quickly shows training depth and if a DVM is on-call; @kfranklin2 is right on verifying benefits, but I skip teams that won’t de
Quick tip: ask for a 30‑min paid trial inside their EMR (Cornerstone/ezyVet) and a de‑identified triage note so you can see pace and DVM coverage; it saved me from a 1099 ‘remote’ call center… If sandbox access isn’t possible, @dlee54, a Zoom shadow is my backup — anyone else had luck getting temporary logins?