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Noncompliance with recommended treatment is a common concern in veterinary medicine, but existing literature provides few clues to its causes.

Veterinary clients arent always fair (or in their right mind). Your practice team members expect a lot of you. The learning never ends. The job isnt easy. Here are the lessons I picked up after veterinary school that might help you as you get started.

When it comes to advice for veterinary clients, I discourage feeding pets table scraps and human food. The pet obesity epidemic and the danger of toxicities mean I lean away from encouraging sharing of food to maintain the human-animal bond.

Heres our regular roundup of new and noteworthy veterinary products.

According to new research, regular veterinary testing of canine seroprevalence shows where people are at highest risk of tick-borne disease.

Wield the benevolent brainwashing powers of classical conditioning and desensitization to both fix and prevent problem behaviors in your veterinary practice.

Conditioned responses (like the dog that panics at the sight of a syringe) can make treatment difficult, unpleasant or just plain impossible for both pet owners and veterinary professionals. Use this free training worksheet to develop and stick to a plan for fixing behavior problems in your practice.

While the veterinary profession mulls over how telemedicine will change practice, some doctors are going ahead and changing. Instead of looking at what the future holds for veterinary telehealth, were diving into whats happening now in this new arena of client satisfaction, relationship-building and innovative pet care.

No matter your veterinary patients age, everyone on the veterinary team (yes, you!) can still make sure their experience is a great one. Heres how.

We wondered, are there some significant pros and cons in showing pet owners more of what you do in your veterinary hospitals treatment and surgery space?

Help your future self! If the clinics not crazed right now, take care of a few less urgent tasks that help you learn more, impress clients and benefit your veterinary team.

In the past year, veterinarians, managers, technicians and other team members clicked on these personal finance articles to help them think about budgeting, expenses and retirement. Could they help you too?

Popular website is asking the nations veterinary hospitals to help protect coworkers from suicide with one extra step in accessing certain pharmaceuticals.

Early detection and regular follow-up are important components for managing this slowly progressive condition in catsand helping cat owners understand the difference between feline cognitive dysfunction and ordinary aging.

A primer on Public Service Loan Forgiveness from the AVMA Econ team.

When the veterinary clients pup is having poop problems, parasites may be at play. Heres the low-down on this relatively common and very treatable canine condition.

An untouched food bowl is bad for patient health and client perceptions. Heres how to partner with pet owners to catch and control inappetence in your veterinary oncology patients.

When things go awry with the stratum corneuma bricks-and-mortar structure of corneocytes and lipidsatopic dermatitis may be a result. Researchers are trying to fit the pieces together.

Veterinary specialists David Dycus, DVM, MS, CCRP, DACVS-SA, and Matthew Brunke, DVM, DACVSMR, CCRP, CVPP, CVA, weigh in on how to motivate clients and what to charge for your services.

Theyre the same, and theyre different, and theyre getting ready to invade your veterinary hospital. Get to know them as employees and clients.

Share this information with veterinary clients to help them look for signs of fear, anxiety and stress in canine patients in and out of your veterinary clinic.

Shelter medicine instructor and veterinarian Dr. Kirk Miller provides suggestions for this delicate dilemma.

Yes. Youre helping the veterinary hospital by getting rid of the toxic team member who brings down the whole veterinary team and sucks the air out of the room.

Once thought to be the eccentric hobby of the crazy cat lady, animal hoarding is beginning to get the attention it deserves. Shelter medicine instructor and veterinarian Dr. Kirk Miller provides an overview of its effects on pets, people and shelters and explains why prosecution and prevention are so problematic.

Every house, and every veterinary hospital, accumulates too much stuff. Join me as I offer the best tips Ive seen practice team members put in place to store things where everyone can find them and get rid of the things you dont need.

Educate veterinary clients on what signs to watch for and some dangers to avoid as they try to prevent or get in to see you faster for possible ulcers, conjunctivitis, glaucoma and more in pets.

Should you buy or start a veterinary hospital? Here are questions to ask to figure it out and resource paths to help you explore your options.

Have we done ourselves a disservice by shielding veterinary clients from the amount of blood, sweat and tears involved in keeping their pets healthy?

Topical treatments can be a useful adjunct in atopic dermatitis, but appropriate veterinary client and patient selection are essential for success.

This dog was referred to an oncologist because of a mass identified by its primary veterinarian. Work through this case with the team at the University of Tennessee to find out what happens once a patient is referred.