Practice Management

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Veterinary graduates acquire many diagnostic and therapeutic skills during four or more years of study and are eager to apply their new knowledge to the diagnosis and treatment of complicated diseases like diabetes, hyperadrenocorticism, congestive heart failure and other medical or surgical challenges.

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United Kingdom - Veterinarians' suicide rate is proportionally four times that of the general population and twice that of other health professionals, studies show. Photo: Kristofer Dan-Bergman/Getty Images

I remember the summer days of my youth. My dad's veterinary practice, within walking distance of the local high school, was always fully staffed with local adolescents who just loved to be around animals. True, they didn't know anything about animal restraint or when to use gloves or pretty much anything else, but they were eager and willing and looking for a chance to get some experience with a veterinarian.

Feline heartworm Q&A

A form to answer clients' most common questions about the disease.

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A problem more disruptive and costly than absenteeism, "presenteeism" occurs when contagiously sick employees show up for work.

How you deliver information may be overriding your message-and preventing colleagues and clients from hearing you clearly. Learn how to improve your presentation and earn their respect.

Foreclosure pets

According to USA TODAY, family pets, their lives altered by the ravaged finances of their owners, are turning up in animal shelters in large numbers in some parts of the country.

They say that most things in life swing like a pendulum from extreme to extreme. We know the business economy follows a boom-and-bust cycle that is mitigated only marginally through government intervention. Also, the political inclinations of society vacillate between conservative and liberal thought and from intolerance to excessive political correctness.