Technicians

Seizures are largely unexpected, and largely scary to pet parents. This handout covers the how and why as well as what to do in the event of a seizure.

Fear, anxiety and stress walk into any veterinary setting alongside pets. Heres how to reduce pets stress during rehabilitation.

OK, not a house, but a two-walled exam room courtesy of Animal Arts that stands up beautifully in a veterinary conference exhibit hall. See the photos and read on for some advice from Dr. Jonathan Bloom, who demonstrated a few Fear Free exams at the most recent Fetch dvm360 conference.

Your veterinary client is becoming fearful of her dogs food-based aggression. Heres a handout to explain what food guarding is, how they can make it better and what might make it worse.

Veterinary professionals, you have a finite amount of time in this lifewhy are you spending it on other peoples priorities? Sit down, write out these two lists, and rejigger your commitments.

If your veterinary hospital is like most, its not full of mercenary pirates looking to swindle pet owners. You care about pets, and it costs money to run your hospital. My pitch? Take the veterinarians out of these money chats and empower the nonmedical team to step up.

If motivating your team to stay engaged with the veterinary profession both inside and outside your practice walls is giving you grief, Katie Adams, CVPM, has a plan to replace your tears with tiers.

Have you noticed that pet foods are starting to look and sound like your own favorite foods? Theres a reason for that.

As a veterinarian, I firmly believed only in what science could prove. Until I met Rachel.

Practice owners and staff: Get on the same page. Huddle. Compare notes. Just communicate, would ya?

When you go to a veterinary conference to get smarter, make sure you share your journey on social media.

Offering prepaid veterinary services via wellness plans and loyalty programs can be like converting cash into casino chipswith money out of sight, clients are able to better focus on their pets care. But which one is more likely to yield higher winnings for your practice?

Anesthesia nerd Tasha McNerney serves up tips for effective anesthesia and analgesia.

At Fetch dvm360 conference, Dr. Betsy Charles uses radiology to help veterinarians reflect on their feelings and experience in veterinary practice.

Topics like congestive heart failure are difficult to explain to veterinary clients. We wrote out some social media posts to give you a hand.

Stop the self-sabotage and guide the veterinary clinic from a position of self-awareness.

Veterinary schooland, lets face it, the profession in generalis riddled with stressors that harm mental and physical health. Here, experts and students at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine share some of the most common pressures they see as well as some positive fixes to combat them.

Making the change to become high-touch or low-touch with your veterinary practice can seem daunting. Thats why Ive come up with these tip to help you in the right direction.

Do you ever feel like you could use a second brain to store all of the things youre supposed to remember? The Nerd Book is kinda like that. Heres how to make one.

Discussing cardiac disease can be like speaking a different language for your veterinary clients. Put things into terms they can understandthis handout will get you started.

Temper tantrums, dark clouds over heads, frowns that just wont turn upside down? Heres some advice on how to put the Partridge Family back into your veterinary practice, when all you hear is Black Sabbath.

Keep giants gentle during veterinary care by eliminating these sources of fear, anxiety, stress and pain.

What do you do when an employee's appearance creates a distraction in the veterinary clinic? An edgy but necessary dilemma.

It's happening anyway, so get on board and get on with your career.

Im not arguing for diagnoses and ineffective remedies. But I think pet service providers should be our informed partners, not our adversaries in veterinary medicine.

You have to care for yourself so you can keep caring for patients.

The new book for dog owners on fear, anxiety and stress (FAS) is available now from Amazon.

I had the passion for animals, the smarts to manage, and the education and business savvy to own. So I bought a hospital. You can too.