Technicians

Youre a good person. Your team members are good people. Clients ready to pick a fight dont have to bring down your whole veterinary practices mood. Get some perspective, laugh about it, and get through it.

When today sucks, here's what your veterinary colleagues do to deal.

Deck: Guidance on the best practices for treating your veterinary patients with this neurologic disorder.

Veterinary technicians: You can help patients with dermatology issues

These precocious pets are here to show you the gaps, rifts and design flaws that bust your ability to take care of business at your veterinary practice.

Clickers don't get frustrated and they never, ever sass, shout or dis your dog. Here's how to incorporate them into training at your veterinary practice.

Maximize medicine and manpower, but be aware of the cost

Give veterinary clients a chance on your Facebook page to share pet picsand a chance to vote for the best one.

Take a page from this 90s cartoon and turn your team into a smooth running, client pleasing, world-dominating machine.

Data from the 2016 Firstline Career Path Study shows team members' hourly pay. How does yours compare?

It's easy to attack pooch plaque at home.

Keeping it social in the exam room. Rudely.

The five senses, that is. Touch clients in pleasant, calming, friendly ways by focusing on smell, sound and even taste.

Feline expert Dr. Elizabeth Colleran shares how her practice has been bite free for more than five yearsand how yours can be too.

It sounds too simple to be true, but accommodating a pets preferences can help take the scary out of a veterinary visit.

Getting a cat to the clinic can be tough for clients. Teach them how to relax their fraidy cats with this handout.

Turn a rough day in veterinary practice into a game of knowing winks between coworkers and find a more little energy to smile with your clients (even the challenging ones) a little more.

A tip to stay in place while scooting about the clinic on your veterinary stool.

Help dogs (and their owners!) survive confinement during treatment for heartworm disease.

Two practice management consultants serve up a heaping helping of advice for a credentialed technician struggling in a practice thats turned a blind eye to an abusive and unlicensed technician who may pushing the boundaries of the credentialing laws in their state.

You can save your veterinary clients shoesand their sanitywith these quick tips to handle their furry little teethers.

Technicians, veterinary assistants, receptionistslisten up! There's fertile soil for career growthhere's where (and how) to plant your seeds.

This interactive map collects the most current information from the AVMA on laws governing nonveterinarians owning or partly owning veterinary practices as relatively traditional corporations. Remember that laws are always changing, some attorneys have new ways to allow nonveterinary ownership, and your success will be based on the appropriate practice agreement you craft with your own lawyer. Now dive in!

Move 'em on, head 'em up

New veterinary study says topical shampoo may be as effective as systemic antibiotics in treating superficial pyoderma.

Leonard Marino, MD, will soon add another set of credentials to his lifetime achievements.

A doctor and a practice manager say its (mostly) YOUthe veterinary team.

Poodles are historically beloved dogs, companions of Roman warriors and French kings alike. But veterinarians and veterinary team members do everyone a favor when theyre familiar with toy, miniature and standard poodles genetic predispositions toward illness or injury.