Wellbeing & Lifestyle

Maintaining balance in your life can be challenging with today's frenetic pace, but it's a goal well worth pursuing. Here's a way to do it.

Here's inspiration and advice for those highs and lows.

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.

Women are less likely to own a veterinary practice, even when you account for age.

Veterinarians explain why they love practice.

Oak Glen, Calif. - Bronchitis and pleurisy ended Dr. Michael Andrews' bid to summit Mt. Everest this spring.

Answers to questions about what it takes to become a locum tenens veterinarian.

This veterinarian gathers teens to train puppies at the shelter.

Top five reasons for needing a breather from work.

Dr. David Plante has traveled the world and lived to tell about. And he's got the pictures to prove it.

A small terrier gave me a big love of foster pet parenting.

We wondered aloud over the din of the roaring river if these rapids were runnable.

He has practiced veterinary medicine 38 years, much of that time as a surgeon, but should someone at a party ask him what he does for a living, Dr. Derrel Elkins, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, is about as likely to answer "sheep farmer" as "veterinarian."

At that first event, I was awed by the beauty of the costumes and the people's chivalry. It was a welcome change from the everyday stresses. I've been an active member ever since.

I don't have the urge to escape to some other venue.

You're the heart of your hospital. Making changes to get fit, eat healthy, and work smart will take courage and resolve, but we know you've got it in you.

Technician and veterinarian are fastest-growing top 10 jobs.

A veterinarian soars and says goodbye to stress.

Last year my husband opened a state-of-the-art fitness facility. He needed candidates for a group-cycling certification program and still had a vacant spot on the day of training. As co-owner of the gym, I felt obligated to fill the seat-literally.

About a year ago, I saw an ad in the local community-college newspaper asking folks to join the community band.

You know those horse owners who ruin an otherwise great day? Well, shape 'em up-or ship 'em out.

"Would my training be enough to get me to the finish line? Would I collapse and die?"

It's all uphill now for Associate Editor Amanda Wolfe's march to her first 5K.

Week two of Dr. Ward's training plan did kick the intensity up a notch ...

We prescribe lots of practice wellness and preventive care: team training, continuing education, budgeting, the writing of mission statements. And we do try to take our own medicine.

Show those other cowpokes you're the most on-time doctor in these parts.

Be inspired as Associate Editor Amanda Wolfe blogs about her wellness training for a 5K, with advice from Veterinary Economics Advisory Board member Dr. Ernest E. Ward Jr.

I used to be afraid of flying on commercial flights. I eventually overcame that fear, but I was still terrified of small planes. I beat that in the pilot's seat.