@CowDoc,
HA, all my vets are guys that have developed pretty decent 'ceps from handling big animals.
I turned 60 this past year also so I was guilty of age determinism.
Its funny that all my vets (New Bolton people use us as a training herd and my regular vet is a large animal dude whose office is a Ford 450 D) He can palm a beach ball his hands are huuge However, all the lady vets are teeny little things . IS there any correlation?