Last week’s AHD Bulletin – Animal Health Digest Bulletin, July 26, 2024. Link. Most read post(s) from the July 26th AHD Bulletin Smart ways to handle too much business. Link. Sharing cases can create confusion. Link. Beware of these toxic flowers in gardens, yards, building sites. Link. Toxic leadership. Link. … [Read more...]
CDC’s new HeatRisk tool
The CDC and National Weather Service have teamed up to roll out two experimental tools nationwide that will help public health officials and citizens to better prepare for dangerous heat: HeatRisk Dashboard and HeatRisk Forecast. Given the challenges heat brings to livestock production and companion animal safety, these tools can help animal health pros stay safe and more … [Read more...]
Goal setting made easy
Most would agree that goals are important but many get bogged down because the process is too difficult. Here is a simple way to get started and be successful. Source: TIME, January 4, 2021. Link. Narrowly defining a goal helps you clarify the tasks necessary for reaching it. INSIGHTS: Trying to boil the ocean leads to failure and frustration. Start small. … [Read more...]
Quiet quitting or setting boundaries
Employees need to take a more active role in improving their work lives, rather than a passive one. Source: TIME, September 9, 2022. Link. If you’re really upset about something, you can often overestimate how unsolvable it is and you don’t need to quiet quit to get out of a situation. INSIGHTS: You are your best advocate. Also see: Search results for quitting, AHD … [Read more...]
Telemedicine veterinarian identified as new job type in TIME
Features Commercial Content TIME named telemedicine veterinarian as one of five jobs that didn’t exist five years ago. Brian Evans, DVM, from Dutch contributed information about the opportunity of telemedicine in the veterinary setting. He shared telemedicine is never going to replace real-life care. It’s always going to be an adjunct to in-person care, because telemedicine … [Read more...]
Worth a Glance – November 11, 2021
Last week’s. . . . . . most read post Cost of veterinary care concerns consistent among generations. Link. . . . AHD Bulletin Animal Health Digest Bulletin – November 4, 2021. Link. . . . Archives Archived AHD posts for October 2021. Link. This 11-year-old is helping hard-to-place dogs in shelters get attention – and find new … [Read more...]
Rescue animals, TIME’s 2020 pet of the year
Pets will return to the White House when president-elect Joe Biden takes office. One of them is the rescue dog, Major. Rescues, rehomes and adoptions peaked during the pandemic and it’s a trend likely to continue. TIME shares stories, trends and metrics. Source: TIME, December 9, 2020. Link. … [Read more...]
TIME puts veterinary diversity issues front and center
Melissa Chan’s article is a must-read for all animal health pros. The call to action is clear. Pet owners are diverse, but veterinarians are overwhelmingly white. Veterinarians are projected to be among the most in-demand workers in the next decade. Yet ,pet lovers are faced with a predominantly white world once it’s time to see a vet. Of the more than 104,000 veterinarians … [Read more...]
TIME: Best inventions 2019
Working in the life sciences, animal health pros are a curious bunch. Whether or not water from air, portable solar power or ultrasound to go become mainstream in animal health, TIME’s best inventions of 2019 are worth a look. Source: TIME, November 21, 2019. Link. To assemble the 2019 list, TIME solicited nominations across a variety of categories from our editors and … [Read more...]
The advice half of working women need to hear
Ursula Mead’s company, InHerSight, recently polled website users about whether they had ever negotiated their salary < link >. Almost half of the 1,041 respondents said no. Self-advocacy is difficult for many people, but for women in the workplace, it’s particularly complicated. That’s why more women need support from their peers. Source: Fast Company, October 4, 2019. … [Read more...]
Some anti-vaxxers don’t vaccinate pets, creating danger
Anti-vaccine proponents are increasingly making the same unfounded claims about pets and vaccines they have been repeating about children and vaccines for the past 20 years: that vaccines are unnecessary, dangerous and that they can cause diseases. According a TIME magazine article, the negative attention on vaccines is growing globally. Looking at the circulation demographics, … [Read more...]
Diversity training infuriates men and fails women
Tracing the history of diversity training to the 1950s, Joanne Lipman tackles the issue from all directions in this excerpt from her book, "That’s what she said." She covers a half century of terms and biases that still need resolution through improved strategies to understand and act equitably. Source: Time, January 25, 2018. A recent Harvard study found that corporate … [Read more...]
Social media included malware threats
As we integrate Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media platforms into our daily routines, risks of malware attacks increase, as well. According to this author, faked profiles are sometimes deployed to encourage users to connect with what seems like a harmless individual. Instead, that connection opens the door for malware to enter your company’s network. Source: … [Read more...]