Practice Manager

Germs are everywhere in your veterinary facility. Sometimes they hide in places you might not realize.

If your practice faces rivalries between doctors and staff and older and younger generations, read this.

Dynamic duo Opperman and Grosdidier make finding flaws in your practice fun. How? By giving you the tools to buff out the blemishes.

Relationships with other practices make or break your referrals.

Five recent films caught using unauthorized and deceptive end credits.

It's not just what you know or who you know, it's how you think and what you do that determines your success level.

Test your knowledge of zoonotic parasites with this quiz. If your stumped, don't fret: The answers, with complete explanations, are provided.

Study says man's best friend might be able to see through your treat-giving trickery.

Cats. They pull at your heartstrings, and they know it. Recent studies suggest that cats convince you to do their bidding. How? With their siren calls you call meows.

Firstline's art director contemplates if man's best friend has the best advice on how to be a good wife and companion.

A United Animal Nations program helps children develop empathy for animals.

TV Star heads a bracket-based contest for worthy animal organizations-and you're the judge.

A recently released movie has kids begging for guinea pigs. But are they ready for the commitment?

The process of designing vaccination programs and cost-effective treatment regimens should be data driven and "custom built" for a particular feeding operation.

Ease team members' work-related concerns.

Owners: Look at what you don't have time to do and learn to delegate.

Find out how many practices have practice managers and how much those practices earn.

This veterinarian hired her manager 15 years ago and never looked back.

Use this form to customize a letter that will protect abandoned pets and your practice.

What to do about intoxicated clients.

DIY pet memorials.

As a practice owner, I feel like I'm spending too much time on management tasks. How can I balance my dutes as a practice owner with my role as a veterinarian?

When a problem happens over and over, step back and determine where the issue lies. Here's how.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's an airline for pets.

Don't get burned by a bad manager. You're the practice owner, and that means you need to keep a finger on the pulse of everything that's happening at your practice.

Do your part to demolish parasites.

Nutrigenomics: The science that helps us develop foods that affect gene expression

These three clips come from Doug Jack's law and ethics session "Anatomy of a licensing board investigation" at CVC East 2009 in Baltimore. And all could keep you out of trouble.

When you and your team members just can't seem to get along, take a look at each others' style.