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Veterinary clients arent always fair (or in their right mind). Your practice team members expect a lot of you. The learning never ends. The job isnt easy. Here are the lessons I picked up after veterinary school that might help you as you get started.

When it comes to advice for veterinary clients, I discourage feeding pets table scraps and human food. The pet obesity epidemic and the danger of toxicities mean I lean away from encouraging sharing of food to maintain the human-animal bond.

According to new research, regular veterinary testing of canine seroprevalence shows where people are at highest risk of tick-borne disease.

Wield the benevolent brainwashing powers of classical conditioning and desensitization to both fix and prevent problem behaviors in your veterinary practice.

While the veterinary profession mulls over how telemedicine will change practice, some doctors are going ahead and changing. Instead of looking at what the future holds for veterinary telehealth, were diving into whats happening now in this new arena of client satisfaction, relationship-building and innovative pet care.

In the past year, veterinarians, managers, technicians and other team members clicked on these personal finance articles to help them think about budgeting, expenses and retirement. Could they help you too?

A primer on Public Service Loan Forgiveness from the AVMA Econ team.

An untouched food bowl is bad for patient health and client perceptions. Heres how to partner with pet owners to catch and control inappetence in your veterinary oncology patients.

When things go awry with the stratum corneuma bricks-and-mortar structure of corneocytes and lipidsatopic dermatitis may be a result. Researchers are trying to fit the pieces together.

Shelter medicine instructor and veterinarian Dr. Kirk Miller provides suggestions for this delicate dilemma.

Should you buy or start a veterinary hospital? Here are questions to ask to figure it out and resource paths to help you explore your options.

Have we done ourselves a disservice by shielding veterinary clients from the amount of blood, sweat and tears involved in keeping their pets healthy?

Meaningful personal and professional growth may come at a level that seems easy as pie. Like so basic that surely the veterinary profession succeeds at it already. But no.

Hiring is hard enough without having to worry about being sued by a prospective candidate. Heres a rundown of the questions you need to refrain from asking during the interview process.

Corporate consolidators are snapping up veterinary hospitals. Associate veterinarians scramble to find good ones left. And practice owners who werent thinking about selling all of a sudden wonder if nows the time. Heres how the process works.

Puppies and kittens who exhibit straight-up fear or wont investigate stimuli after being startled are outliers in need of treatment, says Fetch dvm360 conference speaker and veterinary behaviorist Dr. Lisa Radosta.

If you dread these difficult client conversations, veterinary palliative care expert Dr. Katherine Goldberg has straightforward advice for how to use them as opportunities to discuss goals and ultimately achieve better outcomes for the client and the pet.

This veterinary behaviorist says that while acepromazine may make patients more tractable in the clinic, its likely doing nothing to reduce their anxiety.

Entrepreneurial millennial Dr. Eva Evans told Fetch dvm360 Baltimore attendees that associates might need a little mentoring and encouragement to think about owning a practice.

Five providers of pet insurance gave us the lowdown on what pet owners claimed the most in 2018. Is what you'd guess based on your veterinary hospital's cases?

Youre smart. Youre opinionated. You have the best interests of animals and their people at heart. You work in a veterinary hospital. Here's a tip from Dr. Dave Nicol tips to take video, write blogs and get onto social media.

You get what patients are saying to you in their blood work and their body language, but are you always paying enough attention to what your veterinary team members and clients are telling you? Here are a few things to work on.

A fear of failure, a lack of support and their brand beat up on TV and social mediaveterinarians deserve better, says Dr. Alane Cahalane during Fetch dvm360.

You are never fully prepared when you leave veterinary school and enter the real world of practice. In the spirit of camaraderie, Dr. Detweiler offers up some wise and practical advice for new graduates about to embark on their professional journey.

Some cage cards are straight forward. Some are a little more clever. Some are just downright hilarious. And we turned our favorite into a visual.

When it comes to communicating with your veterinary clients, make sure youre speaking their languagethe language of texting.

or at least made it sick? A recent study suggests that cats of neurotic owners are more likely to have negative behavior styles and poorer health.

A dvm360 commentary asked veterinarians to set firmer guidelines for abusive pet owners, but one letter writer said state boards could penalize you for firing clients the wrong way. Two regular contributors weigh in on whether managers and team members can fire clients and ways to do it. Read it all here.