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Our library at dvm360.com has dozens and dozens of free printable PDFs for pet owners at your veterinary hospital. Actually, weve got dozens just from the past year alone.

Or at least acknowledge them, because they're not going away. Veterinarians chime in on co-existing with pet merchants.

Explain to clients that Lyme disease can be prevented with tick parasiticides and treated if caught early. This handout with information from the AVMA covers the basics.

Following the old adage an apple a day can improve mental health, too. Try this simple and inexpensive exercise to bring your team together.

Ive been told veterinarians dont care about personal finance or retirement planning. If this is true, doctors, consider this a wake-up call.

National Dog Bite Prevention Week is coming up, and that means its time to think about your role in veterinary practice in keeping you and your team safe from frightened, biting dogs. Plus, resources to educate clients about preventing dog bites in the wider world.

This tech company has been outfitting orthodontists’ offices with an interactive digital bulletin board for years. Can it help your clients bite into all your services?

A path to build wealth. A willingness to learn to be a better delegator and leader. A calling to provide a healthy place for veterinary professionals to bloom. That’s all possible as the owner of a veterinary hospital.

Dr. Dave Nicol says it forces you to grow.

When another doctors frustrated client shows up to your veterinary hospital door, I usually agree with the doctors diagnosis. Could it have been the communication that failed?

With client loyalty so important to a veterinary practices bottom line, your doctors and team members cant afford not to provide relationship-centered care.

Are you nailing the jargon-free, informative conversation about parasite preventives, parasite-related disease and the options to buy preventives in stores and online? Don't miss a chance to offer veterinary clients the reasons to buy the stuff from your hospital or internet pharmacy.

If this state law goes through, malpractice insurance for anyone caring for animals, including veterinary hospitals, could increase. Heres how it could happen as well as a look at a compromise that might hold off the drastic change.

While these babies are adorable, they dont make the cuddly pets youd wish theyd be as they grow.

Long running attention to details yields dividends for industry veteran.

A combination of factors have created an environment where there are more veterinary positions than doctors to fill them. Heres some insight from both perspectivesthe clinics and the candidates.

Veterinary recruiting is as intensely competitive as its ever been. Step up your game or get left in the dust.

OBrien Veterinary Group invests in the long game and the short game to fill its need for DVMs.

If the veterinary profession finds new ways to serve clients with limited finances, pets and practices will both be healthier, experts say.

The 2018 dvm360/VHMA Practice Manager of the Year shares her view on retail in emergency practiceno surprise, not that bigbut does see a path where pet retailers and veterinarians could find more common ground and better help their shared customers.

A British-developed acronym you can use to educate your equine clients on signs of colic in a horse. Education like this could lead a better-informed, faster-responding and quicker-calling clientele.

Results of the 2018 Firstline Career Paths survey show 77% of credentialed technicians are paid hourly. Check out the rest of the data to see how each role in veterinary practice is paid and how much they make.

Dont let pet owners, credit card vendors, banks or crooked team members pull the wool over your eyes. Check out the ways clients pay for services rendered and consider how your veterinary hospital stacks up when it comes to managing them.

What can you do when the practice owners niece doesnt pull her weight? Anything?

Here are 14 free or relatively inexpensive paths to a happier, healthier pet, courtesy of a long-time veterinarian who knows what he's talking about. Print it for your own clients.

Try out these interview tips from Ori Scislowicz to save yourself time and money.

An ownership change causes growing pains.

Providing excellent customer service for pet owners who have a disability demands flexibility, sensitivity, resourceful thinking and kindness from your entire veterinary team.

'You'll be going down a horrible acoustic road,' veterinary architect says.

Before you send dog owners home with medicine to put in a patient's ears, make sure you've walked through the steps (and teaching tips) in this handout.