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The one supplier trait that still decides the formulary callThe fellowship that pays you to practice community vet med, and what it doesn't pay forThe psychedelic-therapy survey: what 87 vet students expect, and what shapes those expectationsThe rodenticide number that changes the IV vitamin K callThe surgical drape that peeled less in a spay trialThe venous lactate number that correlated strongly with arterial, and when it didn'tThe 3866-dog study that says high lactate doesn't mean acidosis, and what that changes in triageThe ear-infection study that drops the antibioticThe one supplier trait that still decides the formulary callThe fellowship that pays you to practice community vet med, and what it doesn't pay forThe psychedelic-therapy survey: what 87 vet students expect, and what shapes those expectationsThe rodenticide number that changes the IV vitamin K callThe surgical drape that peeled less in a spay trialThe venous lactate number that correlated strongly with arterial, and when it didn'tThe 3866-dog study that says high lactate doesn't mean acidosis, and what that changes in triageThe ear-infection study that drops the antibiotic

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The Roll-Up.

Who bought which practice this month, which corporate group is behind it, and what actually changes for the doctor on the floor.

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01 · Trade Press

The feline compliance gap nobody wants to say out loud: one in three

One in three cats saw a vet last year. CatsOnly is betting the gap isn't demand, it's design. What the model changes and what it doesn't tell you.

3 min read · Aug 11

02 · Trade Press

Fewer than half of UK clients know their vet is corporate-owned. Those groups charge 18% more.

UK regulator data: corporate groups averaged 18.3% above independents while scoring worse on client satisfaction with cost.

3 min read · Aug 6

03 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

Mars, NVA, and IVC Evidensia Are Not the Same Job

All three own thousands of hospitals and call their doctors "associates," but the paycheck, the mentorship, and who owns the practice down the line look nothing alike.

4 min read · Jul 28

04 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

Specialty and ER Went Corporate First. The Math Explains Why

Brakke Consulting estimates corporate groups own roughly 75 percent of specialty and emergency hospitals versus about 25 to 30 percent of general practices as of 2023, a gap that opened years before private equity discovered the neighborhood GP clinic.

4 min read · Jul 28

05 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

The "700-800 a year" consolidation number is five years old. Here's what replaced it.

We traced the stat everyone repeats about corporate practice buyouts back to its source, found it stopped being true in 2022, and mapped who is actually buying now.

5 min read · Jul 28