Roles | Owners

How many hours should I schedule for my receptionists in relation to the number of veterinarians on staff?

After we hired an associate, my partner started cutting back on the number of patients he sees without consulting me. How should I handle this?

Speculation, rumor, and stubbornness abound regarding such issues as paying employees for overtime and granting maternity leave.

When you know what goals you really want to accomplish, the path to your dreams becomes clear. Here's how to harness the power of goal setting for your practice.

Surveys show that staff members want you to say thank you more often, delegate more, and offer more benefits. Here's why you should.

If surgery is your game, this may be the year to ante up some cash and go shopping. High-tech advancements for the veterinary profession have merged opportunistically with favorable tax law changes.

Of course, the answer to this rhetorical question that has been, and is, asked primarily by academicians in various forums during the past several years is supposed to be "yes," otherwise the respondent is considered uninformed, conservative, or worse, simply a greedy capitalist with his or her clients and patients comprising the victimized proletariat.

Ms. Sue Schmidt provides you with the tools to build a stronger compliance ratio for your practice.

To show staff members how much they earn each year--not just in salary, but in benefits, too--give them a total compensation statement. (PDF)

Redwood Shores, Calif.-Who knows what the future holds? An ethnofuturist, whose job it is to sleuth out lasting consumer trends, says the animal rights movement is changing the way society views animals, and in the next 20 years its increasing influence will become even more evident.