Say the quiet part
The useful conversation usually starts where the approved language ends.
UNVETTED / The premise
The room after
the room.
Where veterinary medicine talks honestly about itself.
01 Why we exist
Veterinary medicine does not need another polished panel.
It needs a place to work through the questions that do not fit neatly into a keynote, a press release, or a medical record. UNVETTED brings the hallway conversation into the open without sanding off the difficult parts.
We talk about the work, the economics, the culture, the technology, the power structures, and the people living inside all of it.
02 How we work
Our principles
Follow the tension
We are interested in the places where good people disagree for good reasons.
Make it useful
Candor matters most when it gives someone a clearer way to see or act.
Keep it human
Veterinary medicine is a system, but it is lived by people. We never forget that.
03 Meet the hosts
The people
holding the mic.
Host
Brendan Baker
Founder & CEO · PawthosX Inc.
Brendan Baker is the founder and CEO of PawthosX and Co-Host of Unvetted. Before building veterinary technology, he spent years operating veterinary hospitals across general practice, urgent care, and rehabilitation. His work now sits at the intersection of veterinary medicine, technology, operations, and the systems shaping the profession. On Unvetted, Brendan brings an operator’s perspective to the conversations veterinary medicine usually avoids, sanitizes, or leaves unfinished.
Meet Brendan
Host
Ricky Sussams
Founder · VetStack Consulting
Ricky Sussams has spent nearly two decades inside veterinary practices, groups and tech companies, which means he’s seen what happens when good ideas hit real-world chaos. He’s led PMS rollouts across more than 800 practices and now runs VetStack Consulting. On Unvetted, he brings the operator’s perspective, a healthy skepticism of industry nonsense, and a strong interest in why some ideas actually work.
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