Practice Management

A lawyer once said how lucky I was to have my brother overseeing my finances. Guess again.

What they are, why they're so bad for veterinary practices, and where your hope for change lies.

According to the Harvard Business Review, youre better off avoiding the poison than going for glory when hiring for your veterinary practice.

The agency says the powder can cause "severe airway inflammation, hypersensitivity reactions and allergic reactions."

Companies can get burned online when employees accidentally post personal comments on company accounts or on company websites or accidentally expose customer information. Here's a tip to keep your work social media device free and clear.

Your colleagues this year clicked the most on these easy-breezy tips for improving patient and pet owner care. It doesn't hurt that a lot of them make veterinary team members' jobs easier, right?

The veterinary clinic isnt immune to election-year friction. But what happens when team members start to feel intimidated by one belligerent doctors expression of his political views?

With a predominantly female profession comes babies. And with babies comes breastmilk. How well do you know your rights and limitations?

Shawn McVey, MA, MSW, offers six symptoms to diagnose a toxic team environment.

When things start going downhill, its easy to play the blame game. But before you get ticked at your veterinary team, ask yourself these questions.

Frequent hand washing to protect yourself, your team and your patients also means painful hands with dry, cracked skin. Don't just live with it ... lotion up.

Veterinarians don't have "the magic bullet" yet to arrest or reverse degenerative joint disease in pets, so pain practitioner Robin Downing, DVM, MS, DAAPM, DACVSMR, CVPP, CCRP, says patients need, not just initial visits, but regular reassessment at their neighborhood veterinary hospital.

These are the dvm360client education tools you couldnt stop downloading this year. Heres your chance to snap up the ones you missed!

The feline sector is the biggest untapped growth opportunity for companion animal veterinarians. Here's how to become more feline-friendly (and how you'll benefit).

Beginning April 2017, you can nominate the most amazing veterinary practice manager you know for the dvm360/VHMA Practice Manager of the Year contest. (Pssst! You amazing managers can enter yourselves too!)

By skipping the simple solution and taking the route to what's easy, we trade quality for convenience, inside and outside of a veterinary clinic.

You celebrate your veterinary technicians for a week in October. What about the other 51 weeks of the year?

An MBA/CVPM weighs in on what it takes to manage a clinic.

Money creates tension in veterinary hospitals between associates and owners. Dissolving that tension is no small feat, but CVC educators Denise Tumblin, CPA, and Ernie Ward, DVM, try in these two videos.

One of the weirdest communication tools around turned us into a paperlessor at least less-paperveterinary practice. Here's how to do your homework and get a worried team over the hump. The rubber chicken helps.

Make your day in veterinary practice and life easier. Get your urgent work reminders, big life projects and personal #goals out of your head and into a reminder and task management system.

Bo Obama inspired many to adopt a member of this brainy dog breed. Use these Facebook posts and tweets to engage these dog owners.

Being respected vs. being liked in the clinic

This veterinary behavior specialist says youre reading your patients all wrong. Bonus: The simplest, most important low-stress practice tip everyone in the veterinary world can use.

Top tips for veterinary technicians looking to excel and for equine practitioners looking for star staff.

No one thinks disaster will strike, until disaster is right on top of them. Do your veterinary team members, patients and clients a favor by staying on top of life-saving procedures when disaster hits.

Veterinary anesthesiologist says we have an obligation to use every available tool to comfort patients and clients.

Think practice owners are "all about the money?" Listen to Denise Tumblin's take.