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April Marklin, DVM

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Cards on the table: A simpler way to manage inventory

After labor, inventory costs are the largest expense in a veterinary practice. Here are some tips that may make your inventory process a little more manageable. Plus, printable reorder tags!


Angela Witzel Rollins, DVM, PhD, DACVN

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What exactly does 'natural' mean in pet food?

Veterinary clients are seizing on a term that is essentially meaningless.


Natalie Stilwell, DVM, MS, PhD

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Crate expectations: Realistic strategies for postoperative confinement

When your veterinary patient requires crate rest to heal from surgery or injury, make sure to educate owners about the challengesand be ready with strategies to make the process manageable for both pet and people.


Oded Marcovici, DVM

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Cant find an associate? Adopt these three hiring strategies right now

Veterinary recruiting is as intensely competitive as its ever been. Step up your game or get left in the dust.


Laurie Anne Walden, DVM, ELS

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Optimal veterinary care for feline trauma patients

When cats present for emergency care, the veterinary team must consider not only the patients treatment needs but also its stress level. Heres a primer from a veterinary technician specialist.


Andrew Heller, DVM

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Do you know whom you're hiring at your veterinary practice?

Avoid the drama by following a more approach to hiring veterinary associates and team members right the first time.


JoAnna Pendergrass, DVM

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Canine OA: advanced diagnostics and alternative therapies

The latest on diagnosing and managing a chronic, painful and potentially debilitating condition that affects an estimated 25% of your canine veterinary patients.


Kari Santoro Beer, DVM, DACVECC

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A primer on current veterinary fluid therapy techniques

Fluids can be lifesaving, but they can also have adverse effects. Here's how to choose the ideal fluid for your emergency and critically ill veterinary patients.


Anthony De Marinis, CDBC, VSPDT, CBATI, VSA- DT, TTWC

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Skittish dogs: Tips, client handout for veterinary team members

Behavior specialist Anthony De Marinis shares actionable advice for veterinary teams and their clients when it comes to calming nervous patients.


Brian Andrew Maran, DVM, MS, DACVIM (Cardiology)

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Commentary: Veterinarians need better boundaries

Asking pet owners, colleagues and the rest of the world to be nice to us is not going to solve our veterinary professions problems with burnout, mental health and suicide. Its time to better manage our emotional and conversational boundaries.


Ashley Bohn, PhD, MS, RVT

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The microbiota in veterinary GI disease

Heres why its important to consider the microbiota in veterinary patients with GI disease.



Ketaki Karnik, DVM, MS, DACVR

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How to know if your veterinary hospital needs a CT scanner

Thinking of buying this advanced imaging technology for your general-practice veterinary hospital? A veterinary imaging specialist answers the money, time and space questions.


Amy Newfield, CVT, VTS (ECC)

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Having fun with all creatures old and young

No matter your veterinary patients age, everyone on the veterinary team (yes, you!) can still make sure their experience is a great one. Heres how.




Kristina Guldbrand, CVT, BS, CSP

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When intentions don’t match results: why well-being plans fail

Find out why your plan to improve personal well-being isn’t working, and learn how to tailor your strategy for success.


Sara Karasinski

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How to be a veterinary practice retail guru

Is one of your veterinary hospital team members the right person to rev up your retail offerings? Or is that you? Here are my five steps to rethinking your clinics retail for happy pet owners and patients.


Meghan Bingham, CVPM

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Veterinary team tip: Help clients register their pet's microchip information

Accurate microchip information can save a lost pet's life, but it's often a forgotten part of the moving process for pet owners. Here's how our clinic helps clients register a chip that wasn't done at our practice.


Alysia Kampf, AIA

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How do I find an industrial washing machine for my veterinary design project?

Life in veterinary practice can is messy, and that mess leads to a lot of laundry. Here's one veterinary architect's recommendations on a commercial washer that will stand up to the needs of a clinic.


Josh Vaisman

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The business case for workplace well-being

In veterinary practices, success leads to happiness, right? Not so fast. Its happiness that breeds business success, say psychology experts. And theres research to prove it.



Cory Friedman

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Benefit plan compliance: What veterinary employers need to know

When it comes to benefit plan compliance, its often the case that you dont know what you dont know.


Uri Donnett, DVM, MS, DABVP (shelter medicine practice)

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Shelter Snapshot: 9 ways to up your spay/neuter game

Whether you perform five surgeries a day or 40, keeping up with surgical technique advancements and striving for more efficiency will benefit you and your veterinary patients.



Melissa Detweiler, DVM

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My encounter with a superhero

I stumbled into a moderation job for Katherine Goldberg, DVM, LMSW, and inadvertently opened my eyes to a big need in the veterinary profession.



Don Vaughan

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Talking CBD with your veterinary clients

When pet owners ask, give them answers. And don’t worry—it’s OK to talk with your clients about cannabidiol in companion animals.

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