DVMs are caretakers of pets that offer unconditional love to owners
Apr 1, 2004
By:
Gerald Snyder, VMD
I have a present for you, Mrs. Client. It's behind that door over there. And I know you are going to love it!
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The practice's average transaction fee remains much better predictor
Mar 1, 2004
By:
Gerald Snyder, VMD
I had a dream last night, probably because of dinner I over-consumed as usual.
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Expediency remains watchword of the day; take time with patients
Feb 1, 2004
By:
Gerald Snyder, VMD
Examination is 50 percent of the work of our profession. Examination is the key to our success or failure in the pursuit of our profession. Examination is the most botched up service performed by fully 50 percent of our colleagues in both its qualitative and quantitative aspects.
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Like packs in nature, the group can only move as fast as the slowest member
Jan 1, 2004
By:
Gerald Snyder, VMD
Our universe is governed by laws. Natural laws. Laws that are as immutable as the laws of gravity and thermodynamics and these impact each and every one of us every day and in every way.
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Fluid fee structure, ATF allows practice to weather staff departures, changes in demographics without sinking ship
Dec 1, 2003
By:
Gerald Snyder, VMD
Welcome back, intrepid readers.
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Plan ahead for increases in costs
Nov 1, 2003
By:
Gerald Snyder, VMD
Despite the nationwide recession, Elsewhere Animal Hospital was chuggin' along.
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Return on investment for specimen diagnostics worth its weight in gold
Oct 1, 2003
By:
Gerald Snyder, VMD
When I was a very much younger man, high on love and life, in the very cosmopolitan city of brotherly love sometimes called Philadelphia, I was walking back from our bookstore toward the veterinary college. Turning a corner, I fell in step with one of my favorite personalities at the college, Dr. Paul Berg, professor of surgery.
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In practice, silence is not golden and ignorance is never bliss
Sep 1, 2003
By:
Gerald Snyder, VMD
The owner of a five doctor veterinary practice in Afurpiecefrumhear, Missouri loved to hunt. Every year, he would take one of his associates with him into the wilderness to test their skills against non-patients.
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Consumer Reports could use dose of own medicine
Aug 1, 2003
By:
Gerald Snyder, VMD
1. Pay for subscriptions by credit card. That gives you federal Fair Credit Billing Act rights to dispute a bill for unsatisfactory advice in dealing with professional services, which you don't otherwise have. If you buy a turkey baster based on the magazine's recommendations and it turns out to be unsatisfactory, I would immediately ask for a refund of my subscription charges.
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