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I help vets and techs love what they do. Sounds simple? Well, we all know it’s a bit more elusive than we’d like for many people. At my lowest, I used to pause at the bottom of the stairs on my way into work each shift to slow my breathing. My heart rate started its...

Over and over during my career, I have been told the reason I wasn’t being paid what I was worth was because I didn’t have the confidence to ask. Just ask, I was told. You’re worth it. It’s not just me. I’ve seen this messaging go out to women across the field, in...

Virtual Care is the biggest buzzword nobody cared about six months ago in the veterinary space. Amazing what a little particle orders of magnitude smaller than a grain of salt can do for things, isn’t it? COVID-19 has upended every aspect of our lives, and in the...

Sign the petition demanding accountability from the profession about taking real action on diversity initiatives: http://chng.it/kvmqpHyXpp My first year of vet school, our endocrinology professor started the year by saying the word “bitch” as many times as possible...

Over the past week, my social media feed has been flooded with pictures of dogs. OK, I’ll be honest, it’s always flooded with pictures of dogs in general because I’m surrounded by dog people, but it was different this time. They were pictures of dogs with captions...

It’s been a wild few months, to put it mildly. I’ve seen less change resistance in veterinary medicine since March than in the previous entire decade. Some practices are thriving, others are struggling, others are so busy you can’t even get to them to ask how they are...

This week, with the large amount of family time we suddenly have available, my kids and I all sat down and re-watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy. At the very end, when Frodo saved the world and he and Sam were about to be consumed by lava, Gandalf swept in on...

We are in an extraordinary moment in history. The veterinary profession has never been asked to fundamentally change the way we practice in such an immediate and profound way as we have in the past couple of weeks. January: telemedicine is viewed with skepticism....

Last month veterinary medicine was something most clinics just couldn’t conceive of. And here we are. So in the span of just a few days, clinics are having to upend their entire business model, panic-calling telemedicine platforms trying to integrate new apps, and...