Dear friends, We are living in a truly unprecedented time. A highly contagious virus is sweeping across our country, and there seems to be little practical guidance on what people working in practices should actually do. As I talk to doctors, practice owners, managers and team leads, I often sense feelings of deep worry or… Read More
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My New Years Resolution? To Love Vet Med Again
Well folks, we have reached the point where New Year’s resolutions are in full effect, and everyone wants to change something about their life/schedule/wellness/career for the better. For me that something is veterinary medicine. Vet med is like the college roommate that borrowed your zoology textbook and then left it on a bench somewhere on… Read More
“Dad Jokes Told Here”
Have you ever felt that someone got you, like truly, deeply, at your core got you? You see, I have a superpower. Not the kind that headlines a major motion picture, or gets me on the B-list of the Avengers, or even their trusty sidekick. My superpower would qualify me for the Suicide Squad, and… Read More
How to Win Employees and Influence People
It finally happened. The veterinarian shortage and veterinary technician shortage that they’ve always talked about for the last 20 years. If you look in today’s clinical practice it is almost impossible to find staff. The classified ads are full and the world during COVID has seemed to expedite this market. Yes, it is truly a… Read More
How to Stay Positive When Your Practice is Tortured by Souls of the Damned
Ever since the portal to hell opened in downtown Manhattan six weeks ago, veterinary medicine has been on its heels. Many of us feel frightened, overwhelmed by the changes, and completely exhausted. Surviving a global pandemic was tough, but to go from that right into a soul-obliterating apocalypse has been especially challenging. At first, the… Read More
Vet Tech Feature: Lyndsey Hildebrandt, RVT
This year, for Vet Tech Week, we wanted to try something a little different: We held a sticker design contest! There were SO MANY incredible submissions (Vet Techs are a creative bunch!), so we put it to a public vote and finally managed to narrow it down to three winners. Those winners had their designs… Read More