Career Development

I'm worried my restrictive covenant is too tight. Is it legal?

At least until you've familiarized yourself with your state veterinary practice acts. You're responsible for knowing and following the laws that regulate other health professions – not just veterinary clinics.

Learn how to keep your personal life and professional life in balance

Don't let the demands of life in veterinary practice stand in the way of your fitness and health goals. Learn how to carve out more quality time for you and reap the benefits both in and outside of practice.

The Ultimate How-To Team Edition

Don't set yourself up for failure. Here are some simple tips to help you stay on track.

You must take action to protect the team and the clinic at large.

These business-building strategies will help you beat big-box retailers and modern mega-clinics with what you do best.

Just like this institution, your veterinary practice can be a well-oiled machine.

Thinking creatively is critical if you want to rise above the competition and the noise of other veterinary practices.

Somebody else's mom or dad, husband or wife, or son or daughter. It?s easy to feel on the outside when you have a front-row seat to personal relationships in the veterinary workplace. Use this advice from Firstline board member Shawn McVey to navigate tricky waters with style.

A father and son team keep their personal and work relationships working with practice.

Links to websites asking for disaster help from veterinarians.

Neither new graduates nor boarded specialists should suffer with boilerplate contract language.

Veterinary practice is never just the medicine

New competition and proposed prescription legislation are tough pills to swallow.

Ovariectomy

Use technology to hack into your habits and keep tabs on your fitness routine.

What your veterinary colleagues were glad to tell Reader's Digest about the profession's strengths, pet peeves, and failings.

Overweight employees cost U.S. business billions annually.

Hand puffy headphones to a practitioner and an accountant at the basketball game and see what you get

If you want to provide the best care for your veterinary patients, first you must care for yourself.

Don't just sit there-get up and be a better veterinary boss! But first, read these tips.

Asking for strength, wisdom, self-control and sometimes voicemail in the life of a busy veterinary practitioner

Trust your gut and take action if you see red flags.

Honolulu - Hawaii veterinarians are facing new continuing education requirements if Senate Bill 2522 passes.

No one changes their life because of fear, force, or facts.

Garden Grove, Calif. - When developers threatened to take over the corner where the Garden Grove Dog and Cat Hospital was located, Dr. Les Malo decided to fight back.

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In putting this issue together, the Veterinary Economics content team had a couple of opportunities to delve into the archives to check facts: one to verify the title of an article by Dr. Ross Clark in the early 1980s, and another to check the year that our 2012 Hospital of the Year last won a Hospital Design award.