Vet Stress Seeking: Advanced pet care solutions for life’s little tragedies

Help! I need to find some way to get my Sophie to and from her radiation appointment every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the next six weeks!

The one-time gamma knife procedure is out of the question due to the shape of her brainstem tumor (funky dimensions confirmed on last Friday’s CT scan). This [relatively] fast slice-n-dice procedure was my preferred approach due to the alternative’s...

July 14th, 2008 20 Comments

Pet Economics 101 How the “Well-Managed Practice” refused me my pay raise

This is a story of how two consecutive cover stories in Veterinary Economics conspired to boost my ego… and later burst my bubble.

In case you’ve never heard of this magazine, rest assured your vet has. It’s his or her version of a personal finance magazine. Though it’s geared to helping vets manage their practices, it sagely recognizes that not all vets own them. Consequently, it produces...