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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.

Side by side in your anesthetic monitoring arena, these parameters are the tops for this anesthesia technician.

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.

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.

Heartworms: They're disgusting. They're dangerous. Pet owners shouldn't want them. Here's what veterinary practices and team members are doing to get clients on board with preventing heartworms.

You have a passion for the profession and a craving to learn more. And, let's face it, you need a few days away from your practice. Use these timely money tips to make your dreams of attending a national veterinary convention a reality.

Do your clients know how hard your veterinary nurses are working to protect and preserve the health of their pets? Here's how to boost your nurses' cred in your hospital.

"The Banfield Effect" is what CVC educator John Volk called it in a recent session. Thats when Banfield does it, so your veterinary practice wont. That may be a thing of the past if wellness plans are one growing wave of future medical care. So, yknow, if you want to know what to put in your wellness plan, why not take a gander at what we saw on Banfields website right now in their offerings?

Whether a pet has just had a major operation or it has suddenly stopped happily eating whatever drops into its food bowl, Dr. Deborah Linder has a few tricks up her sleeve to help bring that appetite back.

If you take emotional responsibility for everyone else's problems, putting their monkeys on your back and on your mind, you find yourself home at the end of every day in veterinary practice with no room for your own needs.

How to take better dental radiographs and explain to clients the importance of the dental preventive care, diagnostics and treatments you and your fantastic veterinary team provide every day.