A few weeks ago, I sat down with one of my closest colleagues, Dr. Radica Raj.
Her practice is ten minutes from where I live, and she's one of the people I send friends — dog parents — to, when they're looking for integrative care.
We hadn't recorded a real conversation in seven years. This time, it went somewhere neither of us expected.
At one point, she told me about a phone call that changed how she practices.
A woman on the other end, desperate, said something like: "If you don't do something for my dog's back pain, I'm putting him down."
She had no choice. So she tried something she'd never tried before, on a six-year-old dog who could barely move.
Three days later, he was 100%. Not "better." Not "improved." The problem was gone.
That one afternoon quietly became one of the ways she now keeps dogs off the surgery table.
We also got into why so many of my own clients trust integrative care more for their pets than they'd ever trust it for themselves, what she believes dogs sense about us that we don't sense about them, and a question near the end that caught us both off guard.
I don't want to give away how the rest of it unfolds. It's worth hearing in full.
