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What you charge and why are questions crucial to your businesss future. They signal the quality of your veterinary medicine and client service. And youre (probably) not thinking about them enough. Dont worry: The Veterinary Hospital Managers Association has a free white paper (this ones well-written) to help you.

One mistake can make you put so many obstacles in your path to avoid doing so again that you cant move forwardor worse, decide its best to leave the veterinary profession altogether. As one veterinary professional to another, lets band together to stop this from happening!

Though a specialist or trainer may be necessary, you can take care of more than you think in-house.

Thats rightyou get a gold star. Managers, get together with your management or the entire team to brainstorm goals (and rewards) worthy of tooting horns, patting backs and yelling, Hip-hip-hooraySTAT!

Theres a fine line to walk when talking to your veterinary clients about pain without paining the clients and, of course, yourself.

Positive cash flow is the lifeblood of your veterinary business, but there is much more to managing cash flow of your hospital than just looking at the balance in your bank account.

What will Dr. Seasoned do when faced with a cash-strapped, long-time client and a patient who can be (expensively) saved? The corporate medical directors not going to be happy ...

Pain management is fundamental to feline health and welfare. Heres the latest on what veterinary tools work best to assess acute pain in cats.

'I'm able to align my beliefs with my work by working with pets of the homeless,' Colorado doctor says.

The next chapter of this handy tool is ready to worm its way into your daily veterinary practice life.

You dont need a leadership role in your veterinary practice to act like (and be seen as) a leader. Heres how you can hone in on this special skill today.

Only you can crown the People's Choice Award winner. Get to voting!

What do diet, exercise and health have to do with veterinarians' finances? Quite a lot, it turns out.

A large international study on feline weight loss reveals factors that are significantly associated with the likelihood that cats will shed unwanted pounds.

A pet's life is enriched by regular veterinary visits and medical care, but is the circle of a pet's life really complete if you don't take into account the work of all the other pet service professionals in the country? Let's dig into the wild and woolly world of the building down the street: the pet store.

In a pinch to take a veterinary patients pulse? The quick (and accurate!) solution is on your wrist.

Many veterinary hospitals are struggling to find associate veterinarians right now. Learn more about what and why, find three hiring strategies and see how one hospital group is finding talented DVMs to work.

Asking pet owners, colleagues and the rest of the world to be nice to us is not going to solve our veterinary professions problems with burnout, mental health and suicide. Its time to better manage our emotional and conversational boundaries.

What can a veterinarian tell clients about cannabis products in a state where theyre illegal? Our ethicist wrestles with a scenario.

Benefit from these dermatology lessons for scoping out conditions in dogs and cats, many of which were learned after difficult or awkward moments.

Thinking of buying this advanced imaging technology for your general-practice veterinary hospital? A veterinary imaging specialist answers the money, time and space questions.

Give budding beekeepers advice from expert veterinarian Chris Cripps, DVM, on how to maintain healthy hives.

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.

Researchers examine effectiveness of visual assessment in screening for periodontal disease.

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

Veterinary clients may not realize that the dandruff theyre seeing could be a more serious condition. Heres what to do when this question comes up.

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.

Veterinary dermatologist Lynette Cole spent months working with a Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Hank suffering from bilateral otitis externa. Here are some of the takeaways from the case you might want to dog-ear for your future reference.

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

A veterinary medical ethical issue for the 21st century.