by Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Clinician's Brief. Career planning encompasses exploring options that range from clinical practice (private or corporate) to academia (research or laboratory) and even to nontraditional entrepreneurial opportunities (laboratory or marketing companies, consulting groups). A clinician may choose to open a [...]
by Stith Keiser and Erin Keiser, DVM | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Vetsource. I knew I would be on the receiving end of a little (OK, a lot) of skepticism as a new grad. Especially as an obviously young, not-from-around-here-girl, practicing in a rural part of Kentucky. In [...]
by Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in DVM360. Years ago, in college, I wanted to buy a horse, so I made the long drive from Kentucky to Wyoming to spend several days riding and roping a wide assortment. A roan quarter horse, Remington, eventually worked himself to [...]
by Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in DVM360. It's 3 in the morning, cold, dark and rainy. I'm 3 or 4 years old, sitting in the backseat of my dad's truck riding out to watch him to deliver a calf or fix a prolapsed uterus. Fast-forward a [...]
by Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Vetsource. I was driving home from a clinic earlier this week and heard on the radio that unemployment had reached an all-time low of about 3.7% nationally[1]. The AVMA has confirmed that it’s even lower in veterinary medicine at around [...]
by Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Vetsource. Holiday festivities. Family. Friends. Good food. Year-end inventory counts. Annual budgeting. Performance reviews. To some, the above two lines may seem as polarizing as a lump of coal and a shiny new present. Fortunately, for veterinary managers and owners [...]
by Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Vetsource. We hear a lot about the importance of practicing “best medicine.” Conceptually, many of us would agree that practicing best medicine is, in fact, best. Even so, the question lingers, how do we do it in the real world [...]
by Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Vetsource. It takes a village to raise a child. If you’re a practice owner like me, your practice is your child (or at least one of them!). As hospital owners, we’ve honed the skills necessary to run a hospital and [...]
feat. Stacy Gentry and Nickolas Biermaier | Blue Heron Consulting Veterinary medicine is standing at a crossroads. Rapid innovation, shifting client expectations, and mounting workforce challenges are reshaping the landscape faster than ever before. For practices that want to remain not only relevant but resilient, the time to act is now. If you missed our [...]
feat. Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting Practice culture isn’t just a buzzword—it’s the heartbeat of your hospital. When leadership styles, communication, or management systems fall behind, the impact shows up everywhere: morale dips, efficiency stalls, and profitability suffers. If you missed our live session, you’re not out of luck. You can still access our [...]
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