Technicians

Tools, tips and plans to inspire you to buy a veterinary practice, help you sell a practice or get your deal with the right buyer and sell through.

Team members complained about my veterinary practice's meetings before I came on board. Here's how I fixed them.

Fear is a powerful emotion, so when clients refuse your recommendations, start with empathy.

Some practices have been doing it for more than 10 years. Others still don't. Every client loves seeing their pet's photo, so why doesn't it show up on every written piece from your hospital?

Help pet owners walk a mile in their furry friend's paws with this handout from a dog's perspective on pain.

Pet owners with questions about pain from cancer get some questions answered from this PDF clientand are urged to talk to their veterinarian.

Sometimes pet owners need more than medical helpsometimes they need a reason to remember how much fun they can have with their loved ones again.

As people, we can anticipate relief for the physical pain we feel. Animals dont have this luxury. Heres how to deal with pain coupled with fear, and how pet owners help you heal the hurt.

Veterinary practice managers and team members also benefit from more friendly, more informative referrals to and from emergency and specialists and the general practitioners who manage patients through their lives. Compassion-First Pet Hospitals hired liaisons and built a process to inform referring general practice veterinarians when patients visit, how they're doing and what happened.

Human winners have worked with shelter and special needs animals; canines have apprehended drug suspects and detected military threats.

Yes, price and income affect the demand for veterinary services. But in the case of nutrition, education may be just as important.

This pet has been treated multiple times for similar findings, can you figure out whats going on with the beagle mix?

Fetch is bringing you interactive elements make your conference experience mean more than just CE.

When a pet owner says the word V-E-T, a cat hears D-I-E. But you can fix that.

If it's too expensive to hire somebody like me (we're worth our weight in gold, come on), try seven other tweaks to get your veterinary practice inventory better managed and lower priced.

If your team can't give clients a clear message there's little hope of compliance (and pet wellness).

Many practices are finding it difficult to hireand keepcredentialed veterinary technicians. Learn why are there so few of these elusive creatures and what can we do to help them flourish.

Go ahead and ask pet-owning clients on Facebook or elsewhere this question. They loved it at my New Jersey veterinary hospital.

Get an uber-tech's take on the national credential initiative, career development in the veterinary field and what it's like to spend childhood as a mechanical robot hero.

Sugar and spice and handling lice, and snips and snails, and puppy dog's tailsplus more awesome medical knowledge and insanely compassionate care then the normal human being is capable of.

A radiograph can quickly become an expensive and a dangerous waste of time (think of that X-ray exposure!) if its not showing what is needed. Here are some tips to make you a pro.

These products will give you the tools to put your best team effort forward at the clinic each day.

Sharp curettes and scalers are better for your team and your patients. Follow this step-by-step guide for getting your dental instruments in sharp shape.

If you struggle to mentally distance yourself from your veterinary patients and coworkerseven when theyre miles away and youre off the clockread these tips and prepare to disengage.

If clients need to use a limited-ingredient diet to complete a diet trial for their pet, Dr. Anthea Schick recommends these two homemade diets.

Whose job is preventive health? How often do young pet owners turn to nutrition to solve their pet's pain problems? Dive into the new data from The Pet Owner Paths research.

I scored four appointments for $20. That's pretty good marketing ROI. An old-fashioned thank-you, in the snail mail and personalized, did the trick.

This year's Banfield Pet Hospital State of Pet Health Report highlighted the growing problem of pet obesity. Nestled in the numbers were a few diseases Banfield saw were the most common obesity comorbidities among canines.