Pricing and profits in the current economyMay 26, 2022In veterinary medicine the math should be simple: If your inventory costs, overhead expenses, and payroll demands are climbing due to inflation, gas prices, and an über-competitive staffing environment, it goes without saying your prices will have to climb if you don’t want to see your profitability suffer.
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What happens when medical titans clash?April 19, 2022As a veterinarian who shares a neighborhood with a major medical hospital complex, Patty Khuly, VMD, has had plenty of experience with MD clients.
Coping with shockingly bad client behaviorMarch 28, 2022Everything has changed. Whether we are still curbside or taking clients in one at a time, most of us are still laboring under the pandemified conditions we have been forced to adopt.
Adoptions are simply a hazard of the jobFebruary 18, 2022Instead of investing our time taking care of ourselves in ways we know we should, our natural inclination often leads us to lean even harder into our work—even when we are not being paid for it, even when it dearly costs us.
Vet med's New Year's resolutions for 2022February 8, 2022All in all, 2021 wasn’t so terrible, was it? It was no cakewalk, but it certainly did not rise to 2020 standards of deplorability.
What's your work-fashion personality?December 29, 2021For some, professional attire is still highly personal. Styles in a clinic may range from traditional to more individual.
Streamlining your workflow in six stepsNovember 17, 2021If you work in retail veterinary medicine of any type, you are no doubt familiar with feeling overwhelmed by chaos.
Overworked? You might want to blame poor productivity; not pandemic puppiesNovember 4, 2021If work seems busier, it probably is; however, if you think this is the result of an increase in puppy ownership, you may be mistaken.
What a brave tennis star can teach a stressed-out veterinarianSeptember 23, 2021Early this summer, the world tuned in to the saga of one beleaguered tennis pro. Naomi Osaka, one of the winningest, most well-paid players on the planet, was out of the French Open.
Pandemic practices worth holding ontoSeptember 20, 2021Our collective veterinary COVID chapter may be coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean we will be throwing out everything we have learned and starting anew with a long backward loop that pretends 2020 never happened.
