Telemedicine has been the greatest COVID silver lining for me. (I mean, other than shaving my head and rediscovering the bidet during the great TP shortage.) Telemedicine has been the greatest professional silver lining, at least. I had been considering dipping my toes into telemedicine for more than two years before the COVID crisis hit…. Read More
About Sarah Boston, DVM, DVSC, DIPL ACVS
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Veterinary Hospital
Okay, I admit it, I drank the Marie Kondo Kool-Aid and, like Colbert said on her Late Show appearance, given the chance, I would probably follow Marie Kondo to her cult compound and stay with her forever. Recently, I moved into a very small home. I was already on board with a more minimalist lifestyle,… Read More
Do I Give it a Go or Just Say No?
Here’s the scenario: you are in general practice and you have a patient that needs surgery. It is not a surgery that you have ever done, nor do you feel comfortable doing it. You recommend referral to a specialist. The owners don’t have the money for the referral. In fact, they have about $800 to… Read More
Media’s Emotional Blackmail Is Killing Veterinarians
A previous version of this article first appeared on Medium.com. Emotional blackmail is the new term being used to characterize the pressure that clients put on veterinarians to care for their pets, to feel guilty about charging, and for making money. It has catapulted our profession into a crisis of burnout, compassion fatigue and suicide…. Read More
We Need to Talk About Feline Injection Site Sarcomas
We need to talk about Feline Injections Site Sarcomas. I will call them FISS from now on. No one really wants to talk about this subject. It makes us uncomfortable. Our whole raison d’etre as veterinarians is to prevent and treat diseases in animals. Now we have to talk about a disease we caused trying… Read More
The Death of a Hamster
I shouldn’t care about what some guy says on Twitter, but sometimes I do care. Sometimes a tweet gets under your skin for some reason. There is this guy on Twitter and sometimes I follow him and sometimes I don’t. A recent tweet by @AndyRichter read: “In case you’re curious, the cost of euthanizing a… Read More