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In-home blood glucose monitoring can improve prognoses and client compliance at your veterinary practice.

You're ready to hand over the practice you've nurtured throughout your veterinary career. Use these tips to help you line up the right successor, the right time frame, and the right price.

A new look at investing and saving levels finds Americans' retirement funds won't carry them through.

Bargain-basement spays, neuters do more harm to the veterinary profession, than good for animals.

DO NOT LINK. FORM ONLY.

Here are three ways to give without hurting your practice.

Pay attention to first impressions. Provide working interviews. Thoroughly screen your new veterinary practice hires. These best practices can decrease employee turnover.

Intuitive cooperation doesn't work beyond pairs. It's time to be direct with team members and other coworkers.

San Diego -- Dr. Marty Becker takes the stage tomorrow to deliver a keynote address for CVC San Diego.

You can see Brian Conrad's Managers' Retreat program for yourself at CVC in Washington D.C.

Your mental health at your veterinary practice may mean doing things differently.

There are some qualities an associate must have to be a successful practice owner. Then there are other qualities that aren't absolutely necessary but can be taught.

A recent veterinary graduate shares the important lessons she learned outside the classroom.

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success,nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things."

Animals serve many roles when it comes to energy and the planet. Their energy fields are far more expansive than ours – a dog's energy field is approximately ten times that of a human's. A horse's field will encompass a large arena, and a cat's will fill an entire property. The energy of wildlife is especially important to the survival of the planet. They create a frequency that maintains the vibrational health of the planet, and all creatures on it.

Employment contracts exist even if they are not in writing. The problem with oral contracts is in trying to enforce them. Contracts require a meeting of the minds of two persons followed by some form of payment for enforceability. Employees, although commonly intimidated, must realize they are on equal footing with the employer.

Transfusion of blood products is an important lifesaving measure performed frequently in veterinary medicine. The decision to transfuse should not be taken lightly: it is costly and can frequently be clouded by complications. Blood transfusion therapy should be limited to the treatment of anemia, hypoproteinemia, coagulation disorders, or hemodynamic instability.

People have a hundred decisions to make every day: from what time to get up, the route to take to work, and what they'll focus on for the day to how and where they'll spend their hard-earned money. Many veterinary practice owners assume that clients' buying decisions for veterinary services are fairly logical.

Veterinary medicine has been owner-centric, not systems-centric.

Veterinary Practice Managers and Technicians are bombarded with financial information. Given this, determining which information to focus on can be an important task.

Exit strategy or practice succession planning can include every aspect from financial planning for retirement to where will I find a buyer. This retirement financial aspect would include planning for the future practice sale value. That is another session not covered in this topic.

High turnover among veterinary associates is caused principally by the failure of practice owners and employees to properly articulate their respective expectations and negotiate and document the employment relationship. Time and effort invested up front will help avoid mismatched expectations, misunderstandings and separation down the road.

Before you schedule the cherry picker to come to your practice, let's see if we can fill your basket with some of the "low hanging" fruit.

The role of the veterinary technician in traumatic emergencies is pivotal to the survival of the incoming patient. The physical exam must be quick, thorough, and concise. Utilization of all technical skills from careful visualization, palpation, and auscultation is of the utmost importance.

Got to have a plan! Management is control of one's emotions and you are PAID to do this better than the doctor in your practice.

Results of Benchmarks 2010: A Study of Well-Managed PracticesSM by Wutchiett Tumblin and Associates and Veterinary Economics reveal that a current partner, or a current or future associate is the most likely buyer in 69 percent of practices. And, one of the most important steps to take to prepare an associate for ownership is teaching them about and involving them in the business side of practice.

Anesthetic arrests and patients with reversible conditions should be resuscitated aggressively. Reasons for such a poor success rate include severity of underlying disease, delay in the recognition of CPA, and delay in delivery of appropriate therapy.

Our moral imperative is to advocate on behalf of a being that cannot advocate for itself, and that means preventing and treating pain. Our patients at the end of their lives can (and often do) encounter both acute and chronic pain. We must keep our eyes, ears, and mind open to "see" pain in these patients, and leverage the many tools we have available, both drug and non-drug.

Become a learning practice.

Whether an employee leaves by choice or at your request, turnover costs your practice. There's the obvious cost of advertising for a replacement and the time spent interviewing the various candidates. But there's also the cost of lost productivity during the interim when you're short-staffed.