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You can appeal to fun, style and client satisfaction everywhere else in your hospital design. The surgery suite is where you keep it real ... real CLEAN.

Are your veterinary clients not buying flea preventives to protect their pets? You don't have to buy their excuses.

Don't let your sign detract from the quality care you provide. Use these tips to boost your curb appeal.

Self-employed people—from Uber drivers to high-powered consultants—need to save for retirement, and a tax-advantaged retirement plan is the best way.

Dogs are so complex, man.

Associations research reveals that relationships matter within a practice.

Consider these talking points for veterinary clients who say, "Heck no, GMO!"

You can make time for life and family and hobbies and healthy priorities and healthy boundaries as a practice owner. Let your team help.

Salary thresholds for employees who earn overtime pay may soon jump to $50,000 a year, meaning potential changes for veterinary practice managers and those who pay them.

Ill go for, "a brilliance of practice managers," especially when it comes to their answers to my questions about whether it's worth the money to hire companies to manage my practice website, my practice social media, my client reminders and my e-newsletters.

Receptionists, use these tips to politely turn clients' requests for a phone diagnosis into a veterinary visit with your veterinarian.

Veterinarian is challenged by a colleague about his use of out-of-date drugs for procedures when owners cant afford to pay.

Practice owners: You own/rent a building. You employ a staff. You have computers. If youre interested, you have a chance to build more businesses, help more people and earn more money than just the hospital.

Keeping it social in the exam room. Rudely.

The five senses, that is. Touch clients in pleasant, calming, friendly ways by focusing on smell, sound and even taste.

Cities are ordering businesses to stop dumping rain water into storm drains and help get it to the soil. Heres how your veterinary practice can make it happen.

This veterinary receptionist had to keep her cool when a client was a little too revealing in the exam room.

To keep a veterinary practiceand its staffstable, take this advice to heart after the death of the practice owner.

You don't have to redesign your clinic from scratch to build in these features. Nothing says "Best. Hospital. Ever." like coffee and potty stations. (You KNOW it's true.)

Put unused wall space to good use, driving home your practices logo and philosophy with veterinary clients.

Anyone NOT want cooler surgery lights or better task lighting? Advances in lighting could make these reasonable updates for your veterinary practice.

Find out how a veterinary career in the government may be just for you. (And you don't have to run for anything!)

Use these ideas to help your feline friends stay calm (and safe, and even sane) when they stay with you. Some of them dont cost a dime or require any changes to your housing. And some require a little more. Dare to dream!

People who’ve made both pretax and after-tax contributions to their workplace retirement plan can now easily separate them when rolling them over to traditional and Roth IRAs, thanks to a recent IRS ruling.

What this emergency and specialty center lacks in space, it makes up for in efficiency and accessibility.

Veterinary medicine is my business. And business is good.

There are five US accredited colleges of veterinary medicine in Canada, and 14 US accredited colleges located internationally, some of which are less expensive alternatives to studying veterinary medicine in the US.

Help veterinary clients know what to expect during this potentially stressful time by prepping them for their referral appointment.

There are at least 10 good reasons for dumping a mutual fund or an ETF besides poor performance.