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Nonsurgical animal sterilization: The potential to control pet overpopulation-and save human livesNonsurgical animal sterilization can help humans as much as it helps animals.
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Practical Matters: Helpful hints for treating soft tissue sarcomas in dogs and catsVeterinary oncologist Dr. Kim Selting provides her advice on achieving the best outcomes in these cases.
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Be smarter about your hardwareDon't buy home computers for the office?even if the price seems irresistible. You'll save on aspirin when you spend a little more on business-grade machines.
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The profession of no returnWith high debt and low salaries, investing in a veterinary education has a poor return on investment.
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CVC Central 2007 Highlights: A tip for interpreting Leptospira species titersTo help confirm a diagnosis of canine leptospirosis, veterinarians today must rely on serologic testing with the microscopic agglutination test. Interpreting the test can be problematic, though, especially early on in the disease or in a recently vaccinated dog.
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Forecast: Schedule disrupters on the horizonIt doesn't take a crystal ball to know who'll walk through your practice door next. All you really need is a meeting, says Cindie McDuffee, the office manager at Animal Hospital of Thousand Oaks in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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Old School, New School: A great Great Dane dilemmaWhat will Dr. Seasoned do when faced with a cash-strapped, long-time client and a patient who can be (expensively) saved? The corporate medical directors not going to be happy ...
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Polish your dental protocols and client educationProtect healthy smiles with the C.E.T.® Dental Authority Certification Program
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Unusual exotic pets (Proceedings)Felids are a large group consisting of 37 species in the genera Felis (small cats), Panthera (large cats), Neofelis (clouded leopards) and Acinonyx (cheetah). Some species of exotic felids such as tigers, lions, bobcats (Felis rufus), caracal (Felis caracal), servals (Felis serval), and serval hybrids have become have become popular pets.
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Overview of endocrine skin diseases (Proceedings)Thyroid hormone is necessary to initiate the anagen phase of hair growth and all hair follicles, except those on the head and distal limbs, appear to be under its influence.
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Are you giving enough praise?Studies show morale and turnover improve when team members feel appreciated.
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Transfixation casting (Proceedings)The major concern of any fracture repair is to maintain adequate stability for fracture healing to occur. The stability provided by open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is difficult to achieve with other methods of fracture repair. However, ORIF invades the fracture site, can lead to further disruption of vasculature and soft tissue and may provide a mechanism for infection to develop or persist.
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Raising fees only takes you so farFor too long, practitioners undervalued their services, charged too little and often gave away care for free. Though this may still be true for some, others digested the message about a healthy business supporting good medicine and raised their fees. But to make this equation work, you need to raise the level of service, too.
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Pericarditis: Consider pericardiocentesis and lavagePericarditis is an inflammatory condition of the pericardial lining of the heart. It is characterized by accumulation of fluid, fibrin or fibrous tissue within the pericardial sac. Pericarditis is seen more commonly in young horses.1,2 There is no breed predilection. Male intact horses may be at increased risk.1
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Exercise intolerance, endocrine disorders and chronic weight lossIn addition to arrhythmias, valvular insufficiency as detected by the auscultation of a murmur may result in signs of exercise intolerance.
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Symposium on liver functionHepatobiliary disease is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in small-animal practice. Several factors, however, complicate the clinical detection of liver disease.
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A modern take on burnout and work-life balance in veterinary medicineHave you heard? Everyone is “burned out” these days, but what are employees actually saying and what, if anything, can leaders do to make things better?
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Hazardous therapyNATIONAL REPORT - Brett Cordes, DVM, turned 35 when he felt the lump in his neck.
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Letter to dvm360: Depression article triggers memory from years earlierDr. Marty Becker helped this dvm360 reader get the best of his friendsand brought light to an issue he can relate to all too well.
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Make time for special deliveriesDo you see the faces of your elderly or disabled clients as often as you'd like? When the team at Millsap Veterinary Clinic in Millsap, Texas, noticed some older clients were missing their pets' checkups, they started asking questions-and uncovered a transportation problem. Their solution: a pet taxi.
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USDA labs plow ahead with $447 million planAmes, Iowa-This year's $104 million appropriations to upgrade laboratories at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) couldn't have come sooner.
