Technicians

Your colleagues this year clicked the most on these easy-breezy tips for improving patient and pet owner care. It doesn't hurt that a lot of them make veterinary team members' jobs easier, right?

Veterinary professionals share their toxic team secrets.

With a predominantly female profession comes babies. And with babies comes breastmilk. How well do you know your rights and limitations?

Data from the 2017 dvm360 Toxic Teams Survey shows what's bothering team members at work.

Client communication is an essential part of the prevention cycle.

Three choices for the killer (literally) cat in your life.

When a flea, tick or heartworm preventive doesn't work, this veterinary practice manager doesn't point fingers. Here's why.

Shawn McVey, MA, MSW, offers six symptoms to diagnose a toxic team environment.

Veterinary parasitologist Richard Gerhold sets the record straight about monthly preventive medications and the possibility of pets still picking up parasites.

Veterinarians don't have "the magic bullet" yet to arrest or reverse degenerative joint disease in pets, so pain practitioner Robin Downing, DVM, MS, DAAPM, DACVSMR, CVPP, CCRP, says patients need, not just initial visits, but regular reassessment at their neighborhood veterinary hospital.

The feline sector is the biggest untapped growth opportunity for companion animal veterinarians. Here's how to become more feline-friendly (and how you'll benefit).

Some of us want attention when we're hurting. Clients should know their pets tend to bury the fact.

Keeping an occluded cephalic IVC in place is hard, but weve found the purrfect solution.

Your veterinary client is still confused about online pharmacies and you still dont know what to say. Use these ideas to get started.

You know it's good for patients, but it's also good for the staff.

The tooth-seeking adventure continues with Mary Berg and the deceptive dental radiograph discovery.

You veterinary clients can start here when it comes to training their feline friend.

Patients will tell you plenty about their emotional state if you simply pay attention.

Managers, are you feeling caught in the middle? Teach your team to stop fighting and start talking with this advice to foster open communication in your veterinary practice.

CVC Speaker Ori Scislowicz defines five common toxic team members and gives tips to handle these bad "catitudes."

CVC Speaker Dr. Betsy Charles points to Apollo 13 as out-of-this-world leadership.

This skill centers the pets focus on you and encourages positive engagement.

If you arent training your cat, she's training you. Read on for training tools and the top three behaviors to train first for calmer cats at home and at the veterinary clinic.

You celebrate your veterinary technicians for a week in October. What about the other 51 weeks of the year?

Your emotional intelligence is key to becoming an effective leader at your veterinary practice. CVC Speaker Betsy Charles, DVM, MA, offers steps to get started on your journey.

Here are three sophisticated heat beams we call therapy lasers that we think are well worth your time, and they wont cost you a ransom of $1 million dollars.

Mikkel Becker and Dr. Gary Landsberg demonstrate to train cats to a carrier.

No really, it's as simple as clipping your nails.