Timothy C. McCarthy - Veterinary Arthroscopy for the Small Animal Practitioner

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 3

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9

Edited By

Timothy C. McCarthy, DVM, PhD

Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Surgeons
ACVS Founding Fellow, Minimally Invasive Surgery (Small Animal Soft Tissue)
ACVS Founding Fellow, Minimally Invasive Surgery (Small Animal Orthopedics)
Veterinary Minimally Invasive Surgery Training (VetMIST)
Beaverton, OR, USA

This edition first published 2021
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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: McCarthy, Timothy C., author.
Title: Veterinary arthroscopy for the small animal practitioner / Timothy C. McCarthy.
Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : WileyBlackwell, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020035416 (print) | LCCN 2020035417 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119548973 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119549017 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119549024 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Veterinary arthroscopy. | Veterinary orthopedics. | JointsExamination. | Veterinary diagnostic imaging. | Pet medicine.
Classification: LCC SF910.5 .M33 2021 (print) | LCC SF910.5 (ebook) | DDC 636.089/705dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020035416
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020035417

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Cover Image: Courtesy of Timothy C. McCarthy

I dedicate this book to all my patients.
Without their participation, this would not have been possible

While writing this book, my 50year anniversary of graduation from Veterinary School occurred. Fifty years! This has been an incredible journey! Beyond my wildest dreams. I never thought that I would be where I am today and would have done the things that I have done. I never dreamed that the first edition of this book would be translated into Russian or that I would be invited to Russia to launch its sale and teach Russian Veterinarians. I never dreamed that I would travel to teach in 14 countries and 23 states. That I would publish books about my professional work.

It is amazing that I was even able to become a Veterinarian. I am so dyslexic that I struggled to learn to read. When I started the fifth grade, I was reading at a second grade level. Spelling was impossible. In the third grade, I was able to get 49 out of 50 words WRONG on a review spelling test even after spending uncountable hours with my parents trying to learn spelling using flash cards. People with really bad handwriting are probably dyslexic and with really bad handwriting no one can tell how the word was spelled. I think that I got into Veterinary School with the lowest grades in the history of Veterinary Medicine, but Baxter Black and I debate who's was worst. If it were not for Dr. Don Bailey, I would not have been accepted. He worked for Dr. Davis, who was head of the admission committee when I applied, all through Veterinary School and graduated at the top of this class. I managed to not flunk out and graduated at the bottom of the class, again Baxter Black and I argue about who was really last in class. And they call the person who graduates last in class Dr.

It was obvious in my first job out of school that I wanted to do surgery. Residency programs for advanced training were a new entity 50years ago and they were few and far between. Then how does someone with grades barely above 2.0 get into a residency program? NOT! I finally thought that I needed to try CSU, my amalater. They did not have a residency program, but there was the graduate program at the Surgery Lab. I interviewed with the head of the program and, during the interview, it was obvious that if I applied for the masters degree program there was no chance that I would be accepted but if I applied for the PhD program I was guaranteed to be accepted. Interesting but it worked. Six years later I passed the ACVS examination and became a boardcertified surgeon and, in a few years later, won my PhD. ACVS recently initiated fellowship training in minimally invasive surgery, and I was selected as a founding fellow in this program for both small animal soft tissue surgery and small animal orthopedics, the only veterinarian to qualify for both categories.