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The Exam Room.

New studies, decoded: the journal, the sample size, the limitation, and what actually changes for your next appointment.

01 · Trade Press

Five vet students just won $10K each to enter poultry medicine

The AAAP-Merck partnership just announced its eleventh cohort. That longevity is the story.

2 min read · Aug 6

02 · Trade Press

The prep-room bottleneck costing you billable time between cases

Inefficient room flow bleeds time you can't bill for. A dual-boarded surgeon's checklist of the layout variables that actually move the needle.

6 min read · Aug 4

03 · Trade Press

Your practice burns 400-600 hours a year on prescription admin alone

A typical practice may spend the equivalent of a quarter FTE on prescription admin. Here's what digital workflow actually reclaims.

5 min read · Aug 3

04 · Trade Press

Fourteen Cats Got Dog Plasma. Here's the Number Emergency Vets Need.

Five of fourteen survived to discharge. Small sample, but it's the only published count emergency vets have for xenotransfusion.

4 min read · Jul 30

05 · Trade Press

Eleven High Schoolers Just Spent Five Weeks in Vet Research Labs. One Learned She Could Skip Surgery.

A weak stomach nearly ended one participant's veterinary dream. Then she found the lab work. What NC State's pilot tells us about the pipeline.

4 min read · Jul 29

06 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

What 498 Dogs With Bloat Can (and Can't) Tell You About the Next One

Three real JVECC retrospective papers reveal how a survival rate, a case series, and an untreated cohort can each mislead a reader who stops at the abstract.

4 min read · Jul 28

07 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

The One Number to Check Before You Quote a JAVMA Study to a Client

The n in a paper's abstract and the n behind the specific number you're about to say out loud are often two different numbers, and the gap between them is where bad client conversations start.

4 min read · Jul 28