The Best “You” Ever: A 1-Year Personal Strategic Plan Originally Published: Exceptional Veterinary Team, August 2, 2011 It’s dangerous to make assumptions about people. However, I am willing to make 2 assumptions about you: #1) Because you are a veterinary professional, I am fairly certain that you pursue a greater goal than immediate… Read More
Clients Are Not Your Friends
Clients Are Not Your Friends Originally Published: DVM NewsMagazine, August 1, 2011 Friends and family bring a lot of great things into our personal lives, but they also bring stress. For example, my wife is days away from giving birth to our second child. While she has been amazing through the past nine… Read More
Why Change Is Like Sledding With Children
Why Change Is Like Sledding With Children Originally Published: DVM NewsMagazine, June 1, 2011 In my heart, I am an 8-year-old boy trapped in the body of a 34-year-old man. In reality, I am a middle-aged man blessed with a wonderful, beautiful, princess-obsessed daughter whom I really don’t understand. As a result, I… Read More
Become a Veterinary Conference Commando
Become a Veterinary Conference Commando Originally Published: DVM NewsMagazine, April 1, 2011 It’s the most wonderful time of the year—not Christmas, or Thanksgiving or spring break. It’s conference season. Every year, I beg and plead with my boss to finagle as much time off for CE as possible. I harass my fellow doctors… Read More
Be the Business
Be the Business Originally Published: DVM Newsmagazine, January 1, 2011 Veterinarians, generally speaking, are not self-centered people. Focusing on others helps us to build relationships with our clients, empathize more deeply with our patients and create stronger teams with our staff. This tendency to avoid a selfish outlook does not, however, make us… Read More
How Veterinary Associates Can Manage Work-Life Balance
How Veterinary Associates Can Manage Work-Life Balance Originally Published: DVM Newsmagazine, November 1, 2010 [Author’s Note: I like this article, but was never fond of its title. This was my first venture into the delicate world of writing about involvement in organized veterinary medicine. I think that the title may have turned people off, and… Read More