From the Operating Room to the Virtual Space — How a Board Certified Small Animal Surgeon Becomes a Televeterinarian. Follow your heart, not your credentials, telehealth connects all of us and our clients, let’s make “televeterinary medicine” and the “televeterinarian” household terms, and organizing bodies need to consult with experienced, veterinary led, telehealth companies on shaping the future and recognize that such utilities need be at the direction, discretion and judgement of the veterinarian.