Career Development
Are you giving your best to your best clients?
Tough talk is the basis of my column. And it's especially needed as our struggling economy flops around like a newly caught fish in the bottom of your boat.
Red Flags Rule: Are you ready?
Use this guide to protect your clients-and stay in the clear with the FTC after Nov. 1, 2009.
How to be more efficient every day
No one becomes a lean, mean, efficiency machine overnight. It takes time. Watch Denise Tumblin's, CPA, video and see how you can become more effective every day.
Worst way to announce changes to the team
Avoid this snafu when telling team members about new practice protocols.
4 ways to create your own luck
Good fortune isn't found. It's made.
Emotional stages of change
An emotional outline of adaptation.
Dr. Oscar the grouch
When doctors turn sour, be sweet.
Pick the right ingredients for a successful practice
Pasta and olive oil: all you need-a successful veterinary practice relies on a few key ingredients.
Case studies: 3 niche practice models
Explore three niche practice models: mobile, relief, and shelter medicine
What's your dermatologic role?
How you can help itchy pets.
You broke EPA rules
Is it legal to break up packages?
Managers: Stop resistance to change
Help team members adapt.
Top 10 tests
The dirt on skin diagnostics.
How employees react to change
Are you a fence-sitter?
What I wish I'd known
A practice manager charged into a new job with a legal pad and a menu of necessary improvements. After a successful stint, she ended up swallowing a heart helping of humility.
Top 10 skin allergy symptoms
Learn the visual cues.
Comedic relief online
Your cartoons crack me up.
Change is happening. Is your team ready?
Fear and dread may be the first reactions when a new way is announced at work. Get the team ready to adapt by following these eight tips.
Blog: My worst day at the clinic
Veterinary Economics Editorial Advisory Board member Dr. Andrew Rollo talks about a bad with one unexpected silver lining.
Lyme Fighter Game
Lyme Fighter Game (Sponsored by Intervet)
Benefits to short-term stress
The busier you are, the healthier your immune system.
Donate fur for the environment
Pet hair used to clean up oil spills.
Profiling your patients
A patient's age and environment and the attitude and compliance of each pet owner affects the care pets need and receive. Are you setting goals that reflect the realities of your patient data?
Speak up-or forever fall behind
A new study says outspoken people are judged as more competent-even if they're not.
Veterinary technician program done with purpose-bred dealers
USDA code violations cause program to re-evaluate its vendors.
Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald: Escape the playground
Dr. Fitzgerald explains why it sometimes feels like we never left the playground.
Quiz: 20 questions on veterinary practice finance
How well do you know practice finances?
Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald: Everyday heroes
Dr. Fitzgerald asks whether you recognize the heroic efforts of your team members.
Veterinarians more at risk for suicide in spring
April showers bring May flowers, but the wet weather may also bring a higher incidence of suicides.
Interesting tidbit: Women are better off in recessions
Men more likely to lose jobs during hard times