Practice Management

A big challenge at our busy hospital is keeping everyone up-to-date on hospital changes.

Will anesthesia hurt her baby? Is it risky for her to be around sick pets or toxic drugs?

A compassionate animal lover rescued a guinea pig near death and nursed it back to health, renewing my belief in the healing power of love.

A self-serving team member may be pulling the strings at your practice. Why are you letting it happen?

Good associates are rarer than hen's teeth, so how do you attract them to your cozy practice and keep them?

Dr. Dan Lorimer, DACVO, wanted his specialty practice to look professional. For that, he needed respectable neighbors. To attract those neighbors, he bought six acres and built a 40,000-square-foot building-which was not his hospital.

Do you see yourself-or your boss-in these findings about male and female owners of family businesses?

Merrimack, N.H. - A music slide show can be a unique and impressive marketing tool for a veterinary practice.

His motto? No team member will leave his practice feeling unchallenged, concede to a lack of direction, or have professional growth hindered.

The psychic said to work on the horse's left front ankle and treat it with a plant extract only Granny Clampet had in stock.

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.

The big dog cringed under the bench in the reception area. "He hates to come in here," the old man said. "But he's got this skin problem, and it stinks something terrible."

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.

Check out this video from the concert.

Guide dogs, search-and-rescue dogs also to receive free blood work, wellness reports.

Data points to disturbing trend, say researchers

Twenty-five percent of Ohioans feed free-roamers, but a fraction get them spayed, neutered.

It's hard work to man a booth during a convention. But an aching back and sore feet are a fair price to pay for good feedback from readers.

Reporter gives those doctors a chance to respond.

Can animals tell time? Not really.

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

Links to the Web sites of Julita Jones (flea art on page 14) and Steve Pica (page 42).

Nursing home residents felt better spending time with real-life Sparky or robotic Aibo.

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

Rule one: Find each team member's strength.

Both the Radio Babies and Baby Boomers (older generation) grew up making sacrifices and climbing the success ladders so, for them working longer and harder were intimately tied with success.

Early detection leads to earlier intervention.