Finance
Be Right on the Money
If you need capital for a practice start-up, upgrade or expansion, should you pursue debt or equity financing? With one you answer to a lender and the other to an investor.
Client Communication
The Choice Is Yours
When it comes to fleas and ticks, clients will be motivated to buy preventives from you if you focus on convenience, cost, compliance and a select number of products.
Pet Insurance
Insurance Assurance
Clients will follow your lead if you show confidence in pet health insurance. Veterinary teams need to choose a couple of favorite companies and brush up on policy basics. Appointing a point person is a good idea.
Veterinary Education
The Post-COVID Learner
Change is coming to traditional veterinary education. Colleges long isolated from each other would do well to share resources, expand online teaching, embrace distributive clinical training and even rethink admissions requirements.
Client Communication
Reality Checks
With chronic ear disease, follow-up care is essential to a successful outcome. Learn to boost compliance, strengthen the human-animal bond and get your patients feeling like themselves again.
Client Communication
It’s Always About the Money
Fixing a broken leg is simple enough, but the cost of caring for complex medical issues can vary by thousands of dollars. It's important to communicate the costs early.
News
Chapter 16: Tales from the COVID-19 front lines
This week: Dr. Peter Weinstein on wildfires and pet care, Dr. Bob Lester on a checkmark-shaped recovery, Debbie Boone on her “Open Letter to Clients,” and more.
News
Chapter 15: Tales from the COVID-19 front lines
This week: Dr. Peter Weinstein on the best and worst of times, Dr. Wendy Hauser on communicating lifetime cost of care, and Wendy Myers on credit card fees.