Practice Management

Overhiring can reduce the cost of turnover.

Technicians help you care for patients, but they could do more-if you'd let them.

How many veterinary clinics are fully staffed, how many are hiring, and what positions are they filling? Plus: Overhiring-is it for you?

According to IDC?s ?Digital Marketplace Model and Forecast,? worldwide spending on Internet advertising will total $65.2 billion this year, representing nearly 10 percent of ad spending across all media.

What to do when a client shows up with a diagnosis from the Internet.

Lakewood, Colo. - Associate veterinarians are jumping jobs faster than the average American worker, according to a new study, and salaries that don't keep pace with inflation could be partly to blame.

Ever feel like you're talking to a wall? Can't understand your boss's way of thinking? What is it with kids these days? Before you get frustrated, check out how the generations in today's workforce are different.

New Orleans - Local veterinarians say growth doesn't mean their practices are brimming with clients, especially considering the number of clinics has declined, due to delayed construction, financial and other reasons, so that the number of practices remaining is just about on par with the client base.

Roadside Veterinary Clinic in Highland, Mich., takes boarding to the next level.

Stories from the Veterinary Economics archives help you overcome your biggest hurdles.

Veterinarians can help clients cope with bad news.

Everybody has a different expense-to-revenue target. Here's how to make sense of it all.

Environment plays large part in choice between working and being a stay-at-home mom, study shows.

Angie's List expands to include physicians, dentists, pharmacies, and health insurers.

Use this form if you accept held checks from clients.

Are you a veterinarian who checks e-mail and phone messages during the family road trip?

Few adverse effects linked to Ground Zero exposure.

Incentives help staff members shape up, stop smoking, and control their weight.

First, veterinarians can address the client worries, then go from there.

Banning your team members from the Internet might backfire.

At the same time, the percentage of larger companies audited is down from 2005 to 2007.

Prices on wholesale goods up 1.8 percent; pet food and energy prices climbing

Dr. Ernie Ward's daytime TV segment addresses canine behavior problems

About 50 percent say the practice owner or manager is a good boss or the best boss they've ever worked for.

But women in veterinary, medical professions report less resentment, more contentment

If you start every day with a steaming cuppa joe, this report is good news.

Task force determines attainable practices.

A recent study shows that working overtime increases the likelihood you'll suffer from anxiety and depression.