This veterinarian’s year-end pet expenses tally (and how much vets tend to save)
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Dr. Patty KhulyPosted
Wed 09 Dec 2009 10:00pm
I’m a veterinarian so I get breaks on animal care. This I know. I operate under no illusion that the dozen backyard-raised eggs––delicious though they might have been..., the owner of a diabetic patient spent $300 on the very same day when an ultrasound was performed using the very same machine by the very same veterinarian.
In case it isn’t clear
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Mangy me ... Yet another reason why vets should date vets
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Dr. Patty KhulyPosted
Fri 04 Mar 2011 6:00am
on The Daily Vet (my sister blog just two tabs over right here on PetMD) occasions this post. She discussed a version of the issue: Though veterinarians have been declared by many....
Interestingly, the percentage of vet-vet couples tends to rise precipitously among both younger and more educated veterinarians (think: advanced degrees and/or specialization). Which
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Do you want a vet with a great ?bedside? manner?or do you want a great vet?
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Dr. Patty KhulyPosted
Wed 15 Oct 2008 7:54am
Some vets are charming soft-talkers who recruit your involvement in your pet’s care with their winning, whitened smile and a penchant for flattering, incandescent lighting.
Others might well be better vets (or not)…but their delivery leaves much to be desired.
We vets can’t always be all be all things to all people. But some clients demand
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Vet med’s ten most popular subjects (what do you want YOUR vet to know?)
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Dr. Patty KhulyPosted
Tue 11 Jan 2011 2:21pm
I find it useful (and exceptionally entertaining) to keep up with the average modern veterinarian’s nerdy antics. Which is why I was so intrigued with a recent e-mail that detailed the ten most popular articles in the popular vet publication, Compendium. It’s also why I offer this info to you here. I mean, how else to keep tabs on which subjects
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"Help your pet, Get to the vet" campaign giving away $20 vet vouchers through February 28
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PetDocPosted
Fri 20 Feb 2009 5:44pm
Advantage® from Bayer Animal Health has started a new campaign to help pet owners defray vet costs during these tough economic times. From the press release:
From February 16 through February 28, 2009, the Help Your Pet, Get to the Vet Campaign by Advantage® from Bayer Animal Health is lending a hand by giving up to 13,000 pet owners the chance
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Animal welfare dogfight: California?s Proposition 2 pits vets against vets
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Dr. Patty KhulyPosted
Mon 22 Sep 2008 10:57am
a chance to enact this “sweeping” animal welfare legislation. It’s pitted vets against vets in a battle over what’s good for the animals, the industry and consumers.
Proposition 2... against THAT?
Yet a splinter group of the California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) managed to do just that. These agriculturally-minded vets are angered that the voters
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lilly to the vet’s (yet again)
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GreybeardsPosted
Mon 07 Jul 2008 7:06pm
that something is in fact wrong somewhere in her world. I’ll give the local vet a crack at it. If he refuses to get aggressive I’ll have to take her to the dermatologist. I hope he’s still... is and how I’ve managed to survive, barely, all the years with nothing but over the counter shit and heat and ice.
So a trip to the vet’s is looming large on the horizon
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Good Vet or Bad Vet? You Decide...
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Dr. Patty KhulyPosted
Tue 23 Mar 2010 7:20am
Not every client experience is a walk in the park. Usually, it’s unilaterally uncomfortable — for the veterinarian, I mean. Which makes sense. After all, YOU pay US, right? And that means we have to bite our tongues more than we’d like to. But seeing as we humans can’t always exhibit perfect control … sometimes even veterinarians clash with clients
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