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Digging into new data from the Nationwide Purdue Veterinary Price Index, a Purdue associate dean says "it's dangerous to build a practice on wellness services," not medical services.

Industry leaders will convene in April to explore student debt issues and solutions.

Veterinarians retain stake but focus exclusively on patient care.

Fewer than a third of veterinary professionals aspire to own a practice.

Veterinary architects Wayne Usiak and Heather Lewis discuss the appeal of smaller practices in today's market.

More than half of Well-Managed Practice owners offered a different type of benefit in lieu of raises.

We see it in your eyes: You want that new instrument, analyzer, device or software right now for your practice. So ... do you need to talk yourself down from a big purchase or talk it up to the Powers-That-Be? Gary Glassman, CPA, has some advice.

The future is calling! Will you answers? Decide after diving into insights from years Veterinary Economics Hospital Design Competition judging.

How veterinary teams pull together when a practice owner passes away or becomes incapacitated.

You dont have to divulge every nickel and dime to be open. Start by sharing one area you want to see grow and invite your team to problem solve with you.

In holistic veterinary medicine the atmosphere is a key component in treatment, as one practitioner explains.

The 2015 results from this triennial dvm360 survey shows that veterinarians are holding steady in recovery.

Clients don't always have money, but you can still earn in ways other than just that warm feeling of a good deed done.

Study also examined how practices monitor finances and manage business.

Your veterinary team knows all about the health of your patients, but what about the health of your veterinary practice? In this Team Meeting in a Box, you'll look at the condition of your financials and your operations and then treat them with new ideas and strategies. Remember, the more successful your practice is, the better it will be for your team, clients and patients.

You might not examine your veterinary patients in low light, but there other places in the clinic where you can try this trick out.

Do dogs take an interest in faux trees? Maybe not, but clients love them.

Inventory at your veterinary practice making you angry? Mark Opperman's "red dot and flag" system could make it less of a chore (and more fun for you organization wonks).

You can't fight millions of dollars in marketing from corner drugstores and gigantic online pharmacies. But you can educate pet owners, find products you sell with the lowest prices, and build your own online pharmacy.

A recently publicized client horror story keeps care, revenue and oversight regarding the procedure in the spotlight.

Pain specialist offers her take on emerging modalities, including one that could 'revolutionize' pain medicine.

(but really how could you miss them? We've been talking about this stuff for decades...)

North Carolina clinic serves cases that cant wait but dont need emergency hospitalization.

Your services are worth more than you think. Adjust your fees accordingly.

We know: Parasite control talks can be boring. But this veterinary parasite expert resolved a familys flea nightmare by not ducking the issue.

A few things are certain: Death, taxesand the countless ways a practice sale can be brought to a screeching halt.

or, better yet, do a little bit of basic math and figure out whether that rad, new veterinary doohickey (and the potential end-of-the-year tax break) is worth it.

It's not about the money for Dr. John Talmadge. (What veterinary hospitals makes its money on retail items?) It's about closing the gap between a client's pet issue and the product to fix it.

So says (almost) every veterinarian in the world. But, really, you are, if you want clients to agree to buy the products and services their pets so desperately need.The most egregious, tacky example of selling in the veterinary practice that many doctors shy away from is selling products. Your practice is not a pet store! That's true. But having items on hand-especially to fix tricky behavior issues, manage daily pet diets or enrich pets' entertainment at home-is a good idea, says Dr. John Talmadge. See why he does it.

… at one thing: Getting customers what they want RIGHT NOW