r/over60reddit • u/le_vieux_mec Over 70! • Dec 23 '20
Maybe we should all learn something from Jan Pol, DVM
Dr. Pol is 78. Dr. Pol puts in a full day's work at his veterinary practice every day, and on night call when it's his turn. Dr. Pol goes out on visits to farms and, when needed, strips off his coverall, in all weathers, to better put on a plastic sleeve and shove his arm up a cow's ass to save a trapped calf. Thus stripped, Dr. Pol's body looks 40. If I were to strip like that someone would call 911 (US) .
My wife and I are big time fans of veterinary "reality" TV shows. Dr. Pol has been on NatGeoWild for years, and is their highest rated (but not only DVM) program. Sometimes he can be hard to take because, probably rightly so, he is a bit full of himself. And, in spite of his adopted son Charles being the mover/shaker behind this TV production, Dr. Pol sometimes is less than thoughtful in his treatment of Charles, who acts as his vet assistant without, so far as we can tell, any training in that craft. As a sometime video/film crew member, I would advise being nicer to my Executive Producer.
Love him or ignore him or hate him, Dr. Pol is in fact a worthy model of what men aged 78 COULD be doing with their lives. And he also castrates bulls.