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The Top 5 Excuses Vet Practices Give For Not Hiring New Graduates Destroyed
In the current environment of experienced vet scarcity, practices are increasingly turning to new graduates as the answer to the problem....
Dr Dave Nicol
5 min read
Call to Arms as the Veterinary Class of 2017 Starts Work
Veterinary practices nationally are reporting a severe shortage of experienced clinical staff with some vacancies open for longer than 12...
Dr Dave Nicol
4 min read
Life Is Your Guru
Sometimes when you do as I do and speak, write books, run practices and coach teams it’s easy for people to assume that you are naturally...
Dr Dave Nicol
6 min read
Stoicism: Helping vets win the battle of the inner demon
When things go wrong, do you feel like the world is crashing down around you? Is it all you can muster to put on a brave face and gut...
Dr Dave Nicol
5 min read
A letter in leadership from the US Marine Corp
One of my blog readers, Chris (who is a Company Commander on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps), wrote to me after reading an earlier...
Dr Dave Nicol
2 min read
How do we keep veterinary medicine fun?
I just got finished up with my first interview for a new podcast I’m hosting (due later this month) with Dr Diederik Gelderman. We had a...
Dr Dave Nicol
3 min read
Use coaching to become a better leader (& parent)
Watching someone light up with happiness and amazement when they accomplish something new is one of the coolest things to witness. And...
Dr Dave Nicol
3 min read
Leadership - A definition that works well for me.
Leadership is one of those topics with an almost bottomless pit of resources describing it. Despite this, a useful working definition can...
Dr Dave Nicol
2 min read
