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2 tips for better oral tumor biopsies
CVC educator Barden Greenfield, DVM, DAVDC, shared a lot of advice about oral tumor types diagnosis and treatment in a recent session. Here are two tips that stood out to one interested attendee.
My snake of a brother stole $200K from my veterinary practice
A lawyer once said how lucky I was to have my brother overseeing my finances. Guess again.
Squirt a little magic in that hissing cats mouth
Veterinary anesthesia and analgesia expert Tasha McNerney makes a case for kitty magic and describes how to deliver it to particularly peevish cats.
Your toxic team is hurting her
Veterinary team, heal thyself. Are you consumed by your feelings? If you want to improve the medical care you offer, start by fixing your toxic team.
Toxic veterinary teams
What they are, why they're so bad for veterinary practices, and where your hope for change lies.
Back Office Blunders, Episode 8: I tawt I taw a putty tat!
A pet owner coddles her kitty ... to the point of hysteria.
How toxic teams affect patient care
A fight-or-flight response can leave convalescent pets in the lurch
Skeptical about sacrococcygeal blocks?
Find out why the block is anesthesia and analgesia expert Tasha McNerneys go-to trick for urethral obstruction cats, plus a how-to video.
Home care instruction for periodontal disease
Your clients are motivated to give their periodontal disease-stricken pets home care treatment. Heres what CVC speaker and dentistry expert Vickie Byard suggests you tell them.
Diagnostic dental radiographs: A concise how-to
Mary Berg, RVT, RLATG, VTS (Dentistry), demonstrates her preferred method of obtaining these images.
New year, new troubles brewing for Drs. Codger and Greenskin
A survey of the sundry eccentricities between two practitioners trying to function harmoniously in one veterinary practice.
The best laid scenes o' mice and men
Views of tempting creations for a small species have spread quickly via word of mouse.
Client education: Take it one step further
Look, we cant go home with our clients to make sure theyre following our advice. But we can offer them classes to make sure theyre getting the knowledge to offer the care their pets need.
Coffee on the Couch: A conversation with Dr. Marty Becker
Technician utilization and Fear Free are in the spotlight in this installment.
Powdered gloves? FDA says, 'Throw them out!'
The agency says the powder can cause "severe airway inflammation, hypersensitivity reactions and allergic reactions."
Top 10: Your favorite veterinary tips of 2016
Your colleagues this year clicked the most on these easy-breezy tips for improving patient and pet owner care. It doesn't hurt that a lot of them make veterinary team members' jobs easier, right?
Dealing drugs legally: Keep the feds off your back and your meds off the street
Increasingly complex legislation means veterinarians must be extra-vigilant in their drug management practices.
The veterinarian stuck on a soapbox
The veterinary clinic isnt immune to election-year friction. But what happens when team members start to feel intimidated by one belligerent doctors expression of his political views?
Toxic confessions
Veterinary professionals share their toxic team secrets.
Pumped up practice: Make breastfeeding work with your veterinary career
With a predominantly female profession comes babies. And with babies comes breastmilk. How well do you know your rights and limitations?
What are you hiding from?
Data from the 2017 dvm360 Toxic Teams Survey shows what's bothering team members at work.
Parasite prevention failures: when expectation doesnt meet reality
Client communication is an essential part of the prevention cycle.
3 killer cat toys
Three choices for the killer (literally) cat in your life.
Diagnosing food allergies in dogs and catsBring your case to trial
An elimination diet trial is the only way to diagnose a food allergy in a dog or cat. Heres a step-by-step guide for selecting and conducting an elimination diet trial.
Fleas, ticks got clients hopping mad?
When a flea, tick or heartworm preventive doesn't work, this veterinary practice manager doesn't point fingers. Here's why.
Veterinary resolutions: A dvm360 pie chart
Veterinary professionals have their own set of resolutions, and the rest of the world wouldn't possibly understand.
6 symptoms of a toxic team
Shawn McVey, MA, MSW, offers six symptoms to diagnose a toxic team environment.
Just Ask the Expert: The patient is receiving preventives, but still picked up worms?
Veterinary parasitologist Richard Gerhold sets the record straight about monthly preventive medications and the possibility of pets still picking up parasites.
Are you cracking up?!
Frequent hand washing to protect yourself, your team and your patients also means painful hands with dry, cracked skin. Don't just live with it ... lotion up.
Veterinarian launches 'Practice Owner Incubator Internship'
In the innovative program, Ohio State University alum Dave Haeussler, DVM, shares knowledge with veterinary school graduates on practice ownership and management, gets an ownership stake in the new hospitals himself.