Robert M. Miller, DVM

Dr. Robert Miller inadvertently spooks a horse owner during a late-night veterinary call.

Want to build your veterinary practice? Dr. Robert Miller says just talk to your clients.

Sure, there are casinos, showgirls, all-you-can-eat buffets and a certain veterinary conference-but the state is more than that. It's also home to endless vistas, many mustangs and poetry-telling buckaroos.

Dr. Robert Miller thinks Tom Brokaw was a generation off.

Persistence led Dr. Miller not only to his dream, but also to a lifelong friend and mentor.

A stethoscope at the ready is a sign of progress in veterinary medicine, Dr. Miller says-it reflects an ability to differentiate normal from abnormal.

Don't shrink from treating exotics. Dr. Robert Miller assures you that you got this.

Dr. Miller muses on the benefits his group practice reaped from its internship program-and how he was able to cut the wheat from the chaff when it came to candidates.

In his latest book, Dr. Miller tells how pre-TV days inspired home-grown entertainment in the form of practical jokes.

Dr. Miller reflects on a missed moment with one of his former clients.

Young veterinary grads will be smarter and more career-flexible if they look to mixed practice for their first job.

When life gives you a veterinary mobile unit that looks like an ice cream truck, you might as well sell popsicles.

Dr. Miller unravels an interns objections to the clinic dress code.

Cultivating friendships as well as outside interests makes for a rich life.

Dr. Robert M. Miller recounts several memorable Christmas Eve emergency calls.

Dr. Miller remembers a colleague, and has a proposal for adventurous veterinarians.

Interns may come to you to continue their education, but they can also teach you a thing or two, in practice and in friendship.

Insight from the original exotic-animal veterinarian at Conejo Valley Veterinary Hospital.

It is July. The only national holiday this month comes on the fourth of the month. It's called Independence Day. But we don't often say that.

Veterinary technicians should be called "nurses."

As I age, my mother is on my mind more frequently, and I realize how profoundly she shaped my life.

How many of us, in our personal lives, practice the preventive medicine that we preach?

In Thousand Oaks, Calif., my hometown, there is another Robert Miller, a retired engineer, and I feel sorry for him. He gets calls from all over the country intended for me.

Dr. Robert M. Miller passes life lessons and pearls of wisdom on to the next generation.

Dr. Miller shares his views on how some modern horsemanship training methods have adversely affected the industry.

Dr. Miller reflects on the passing of author Bill Campbell and how far the discipline of animal behavior has come over the years.

Dr. Miller shares his inspiration for living life to the fullest regardless of age.

Dr. Miller reviews the impact this medical advance has had on modern veterinary and human medicine.

What characteristics does someone need to be a passionate veterinarian? Dr. Miller reveals.

Find out how Dr. Miller's former practice came full circle after his transition from clinician to client.In the early days of my veterinary career, I practiced out of my modest home on Willow Lane. Then, down the line, I finally opened an office for small-animal practice in a rented facility. No longer limited to house calls, the practice grew rapidly. Soon an associate joined me, Dr. Bob Kind, who became a partner a year later and remained a partner as well as a treasured friend until I retired from practice.