Brendan Howard, Business Channel Director

Ed Durham, author of a new veterinary cardiology textbook for technicians, has a passion for his specialty, for education and for empowering his peers to do more.

Were these veterinary conference attendees feeling compassion fatigue, burnout or secondary traumatic stress? Are you? Find out here.

This company offers their years-tested marketing, financial help, phone-call support and more for a franchise fee and a cut of your profits. Whether you want to go with a house-call company like MVS or go it alone, heres some advice about what clients love house calls and what steps to take to make sure you do it right.

You missed it? You didn't write these veterinary practice management and medicine down? I got you covered.

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.

While DVMs were in veterinary school, who was teaching you how to run one of these crazy animal hospitals? Hey. Well help.

Its true that veterinary practices earn more per square foot through medicine than through boarding, grooming or retail. But its also true that veterinarians can make good money on pet services. (And where do you think all those boarders will go for their veterinary care?)

A new wireless ECG device lets patients go about their normal day and gives veterinarians better readings for rest and exercise.

The latest installment in the Nationwide Purdue Veterinary Price Index digs deeper into GP vs. specialist, corporate vs. "Main Street" practice, and urban vs. suburban vs. rural. It's all based on millions of receipts from the pet insurance provider's database from 2009 to 2017.

One practice owner involved in early trials thinks colleagues "will very much enjoy the intraoral administration ... with less mess, less sneeze, less struggling" with patients.

We poked around the big exhibit hall in Orlando, and here are a few new (or new to us) products that jumped out at us. #INCYMI

The metric you should be measuring is client spend per year, says veterinary analyst John Volkand it's likely to be higher if you ease the sticker shock.

One of dogs favorite toys joins the recent wave of interactive pet electronics. You decide whether its a good match for your veterinary clients or in your hospital or boarding.

What did Fetch dvm360 attendees in San Diego learn from playing the new game Veterinarians Against Insanity?

Veterinary team members made mistakes in this fictional case study from Fetch dvm360 educator Bash Halow, LVT, CVPM. But was the doctor more interested in blaming than finding solutions?

On Christmas eve, do you want to be visited by the Ghost of Opportunities Past? Then it's time to check out tips from these inspiring contest winners trying to talk clients and your practice management into forward booking.

Prioritize saving teeth with veterinary clients with a new acronym for dental work: COPAT.

And they are! Here's a sneak peek at newor newly exhibitingproducts and services at Fetch dvm360 San Diego next month.

Pets can benefit from training, boarding and day care owned by a veterinarianthe DVM is the expert, after all, not pet service and pet retail staff somewhere else. Just figure out if this chance for pet enrichment for your clients is the right fit for your veterinary hospital's philosophy, staff and location.

This soft, duck-billed muzzle might turn an angry dog outburst into a funny angry-Donald Duck-like experience. Veterinary professionals, decide for yourself.

Ain't nobody got time for pet enrichment when you're just trying to talk clients into crucial medical work. But our latest veterinary survey shows pet enrichment IS on your mind, so maybe it should also be in your exam room recommendations, your online pharmacy and in the reception area.

Spring a high cost on a client they weren't expecting, you get grief. So, when you see an important but nonurgent procedure in the veterinary exam room that needs to be done soon but not now, give them a heads-up.

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.

When veterinary clients pay an annual feeor monthly installmentsfor wellness services over the course of a year, will they be mad if they don't use them? Not if you remind them. (You ARE sending out regular reminders for everything, right?)

When veterinary clients pay an annual feeor monthly installmentsfor wellness services over the course of a year, will they be mad if they don't use them? Not if you remind them. (You ARE sending out regular reminders for everything, right?)

We've been writing about wellness and preventive-care plans like crazy here for a while now. Here are a things we missed that we don't want you to miss.

CVPMs need 48 hours of practice management CE every two years. We've got you covered at CVC. Here's an example of how you could blow your mind with knowledge (and fulfill your requirements) at a CVC near you.

No money means no care means no healthy pets. We know you dont want to be a pet insurance salesman or pitch veterinary care credit cards, and you dont have to be. Here are some ways to fight through your reservationsor the worries of othersabout these two kinds of products.

... where you inject them after researching some of the biggest names in microchip technology and their current veterinary products to get lost pets home faster.

Now you can check with the AAHA/VMG Chart of Accounts, recently made available to the veterinary profession as a free resource.