Ethics/Law

Scenario: All too often, companion animal practitioners are faced with a client who is unable to pay for a pet’s medical procedure, or an animal is brought to the practice th

Scenario: Companion animal practitioners commonly see dogs and cats with multiple, significant medical problems,many of which may not be known to the owners.

Veterinary medicine has remarkable diagnostics and therapeutics for disease, but practitioners are being asked to embrace the concept of pet hospice for both the patient and the client.

Dear Editor: In the article Changes in Feline Eating Behavior (October 2008), the author says the following in regard to types of tooth resorption in cats:

Dear Editor:

The legal view of animals as property opens the door for people to do things to animals that would be questionable or prohibited if done to children.

Does the veterinarian owe primary allegiance to the client or to the animal? This is the question posed and discussed in this article. The question is especially important in geriatric animals for...

Urbanization & Disease Transmission 

Munchausen by proxy (MBP) is a condition first described in human medicine 30 years ago, in which parents or guardians feign or create illness in their children to receive and maintain the attention...

Traditional news organizations carry the obligations of good journalism. The information that they gather must be validated and confirmed by an independent source before it is accepted as fact and...

NSAID Risks

Electric shock therapy for dogs involves the use of a fitted electronic collar that transmits various levels of an electronic discharge. Shock can be electric or low-level electronic stimulation. The...

An Important Aspect of Wildlife Medicine

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