{"podcast":{"title":"The Cone of Shame Veterinary Podcast","slug":"the-cone-of-shame-veterinary-podcast-1191328","podcast_index_feed_id":1191328,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-cone-of-shame/","website_url":"http://DrAndyRoark.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/0a04bf2e-d920-4686-9e40-c13d07c8920b/3832093-1731682037.jpg","author":"Dr. Andy Roark","episode_count":410,"summary":"The Cone of Shame Podcast is the podcast all about life in Veterinary Medicine. Dr Andy Roark covers medical related topics with help from experts in the veterinary industry.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T14:17:24.414623+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cone-of-shame-veterinary-podcast-1191328"},"episode":{"title":"395 - Where Are the Greatest Opportunities for Access to Care?","slug":"395-where-are-the-greatest-opportunities-for-access-to-care","published_at":"2026-05-07T04:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cone-of-shame-veterinary-podcast-1191328/395-where-are-the-greatest-opportunities-for-access-to-care","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cone-of-shame-veterinary-podcast-1191328","url":"https://the-cone-of-shame.captivate.fm/episode/395-where-are-the-greatest-opportunities-for-access-to-care","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9e550524-e9de-45d7-8b44-a79440b86eb0.mp3","summary":"Dr. Andy Roark hosts Dr. Jules Benson, founder and principal of Titum Lucidum Consulting, to push the access-to-care conversation from advocacy into practical, feasible actions veterinary teams can take now. They frame access to care as a broad spectrum, noting growth in specialty access while affordability challenges are expanding even for middle-income households, and they stress veterinary medicine’s cash-based reality and the lack of a true safety net. Benson argues access solutions must be sustainable business models, citing data-driven opportunities and examples such as proactively normalizing financing options, focused care models like high-quality high-volume spay and neuter, dental and surgery centers, mobile specialists, and imaging centers. They discuss expectation-setting, community-of-care coordination, telemedicine uncertainty, and the competitive tensions between independent and corporate models.","meta_description":"Dr. Andy Roark hosts Dr. Jules Benson, founder and principal of Titum Lucidum Consulting, to push the access-to-care conversation from advocacy into pract…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1828,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-cone-of-shame-veterinary-podcast-1191328/episodes/395-where-are-the-greatest-opportunities-for-access-to-care/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-cone-of-shame-veterinary-podcast-1191328/395-where-are-the-greatest-opportunities-for-access-to-care.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}