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Practice managers are known for being the ones other team members turn to for support—but who supports them? Introducing AAHA's new group for practice managers in the association’s online AAHA Community, a safe space  where practice managers at AAHA-accredited hospitals can support each other.

 How worried do pet owners need to be?

You don’t have to quarantine if exposed, but don’t throw away those masks quite yet.

“Mentorship has been around along as veterinary medicine,” said Addie Reinhard, DVM, MS. But she thinks the definition is shifting.

It’s time for the annual performance review. And although, as a practice manager, you may be tempted to check the box, “exceeded expectations” for simply surviving a global pandemic, that’s not helpful.   

“It looked like the sky was falling,” says Charles Hurty, DVM. He was talking about the skies over Newport, Oregon in September 2020, when out-of-control wildfires ravished the surrounding old growth forests and rained ash and grit over much of the Pacific Northwest. But he could have been talking about COVID-19. 

While you’re planning out your next few months, be sure to include a few days out of the office to attend Connexity ® —AAHA’s annual conference where we can all get together and Create a Better World .

Covid has been an era-defining event, like past plagues, wars and natural disasters. And like other such events, it follows a predictive pattern, notes Kristina Roberts, Global Consumer Leader at Ernst & Young (EY), a global accounting firm.   

Are people more likely to feel empathy for animals, or for humans? The answer is complicated, but it boils down to a question of context.

Researchers at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine used state-of-the-art molecular evolution tools to assess how pressures from natural selection may have influenced the canine coronavirus’ evolution.