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According to the Dictionary of Psychology, social loafing describes the phenomenon that occurs when individuals exert less effort when working as a group or team than when working independently.

Once you identify all of the positions within your practice, it is important to create an organizational chart.

Most farmers and ranchers do not have an endless supply of money with which to run their business each year.

Each day across the United States, we leave work late due to an overload of work, much of which is self-imposed.

The syndrome of toxic work overtakes you when what's happening at work causes protracted bouts of distress, culminating in emotional suffering or physical symptoms and heightened by the perceived inability to stop the pain and move on to find or create a reward situation.

The biggest source of missed income originates in the exam room.

Budgets should an integral part of your overall financial plan.

Perform this simple exercise during your next staff training session: Ask each team member to list the top ten conditions and/or diagnoses your hospital sees on a daily basis.

Identify the demands and requests of your client base.

The current state of the workforce is that there is a shortage of skilled workers and in the veterinary industry we are experiencing this shortage with a great intensity.

To deal with growth, we are really talking about how we handle change in the workplace.

The large animal veterinary practitioner is faced with a number of unique legal considerations in the daily discharge of his or her professional duties.

Most people who work with animal do so because of an intense love for animals and desire to help them.

For any practice, program or promotion to succeed, regardless of the objectives, the people who are responsible for carrying out the details of the program must be educated on what they are expected to do.

Not many things can ruin our perfect day as fast and as completely as an unhappy client.

Inventory is one of the most profitable and vulnerable segments of income generated within a veterinary hospital.

I remember when I started my practice over 20 years ago that I was surprised and intrigued by certain employment policies that I heard some of the newer "corporate" practices, as well as many smaller practices had implemented.

The companion animal veterinary practitioner is faced with a number of unique legal considerations in the daily discharge of his or her professional duties.

The veterinary staff sees families at their moments of greatest worry concerning their companion animals.

Did you ever stop to think why clients come to your hospital?

Most veterinarians desire to do well while doing good. I have found that community outreach programs that simultaneously promote my practice help our team fulfill that desire.

When it comes to achieving financial success as practicing veterinarians, we are definitely our own worst enemies.

Veterinarians have the unique position of experiencing their patients' deaths at a rate seven times that of human physicians, frequently leading them into unique shared emotional experiences with clients whom they have known for many years.

The veterinary team is a most influential element of practice management ensuring a well run and efficient hospital.

Class IV laser therapy is a profit center that empowers you to provide advanced care and market your practice as a state-of-the-art facility.

Ready to run more tests on your patients? Veterinary Economics Editorial Advisory Board member Dr. Fred Metzger, DABVP, owner of Metzger Animal Hospital in State College, Pa., has four tips to put your in-house lab or reference lab to work for you:

Veterinary school and law-school training actually have quite a bit in common. For example, when I finished each, I soon realized just how huge was the volume of practical things I needed to know but did not.

This map shows how many pets per small animal practitioner live in each state.

Where do horse owners get their info? Sometimes from you, sometimes from less-reliable sources. Here's what they want to know-and how they'd like to learn it.

Veterinarians' salaries continue to rank near the low end of those within the health-care field, but DVMs job security and job-growth prospects are among the best, according to the U.S. Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).