Practice Management

And help your clients not be part of the problem when it comes to their pets separation anxiety.

Many clients aren't on the same page with you about your expertise-they're relying on the Internet for veterinary advice.

Got a minute? We've got your training solution right here. Use this quick activity to boost the number of kitties that visit your veterinary practice. Just click, print and practiceAs easy as 1-2-3.

Check out this gross-to-the-max list of maggot-infested, anal-gland-laced messes that lurk around every dim and dusty corner of your practice.

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.

Use these five tips to overcome compassion fatigue and burnout (and learn to tell the difference).

This veterinary behaviorist says patients taken to the back for testing and procedures might be better-behaved, but don't fool yourself: They're not happier or calmer away from most pet owners.

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

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).

Save time and don't miss a spot with my process.

You dont need the Force to move veterinary clients. Consider this sage advice from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

It's pricey, but you can use the technology for work and fun.

These are the ways we stumble into traps in the exam room and undercut out medicine, our patients and ourselves.

Learn how to harness Facebook's strengths and limit your vulnerabilities.

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.

These younger veterinarians are tired of the low pay, lack of balance andlast but certainly not leastdemands to compromise their ethics.

Associates and practices owners, put these retail therapy and relaxation tools on your holiday wish list or, better yet, buy them for yourself (you deserve it).

A rabid skunk scare in my own backyard tests my veterinary judgment.

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

Dr. Lisa Radosta puts to rest a persistent myth surrounding an often-tricky veterinary task.

Salaries are climbing and employment is strong, economists find.

You can fix that problem for a veterinary team member. But should you?

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