Letter from the Editor: Welcome to the New Clinician's Brief

Indu Mani, DVM, ScD, Editor, Clinician's Brief

ArticleLast Updated April 20232 min read
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Lately, you might have noticed a few changes to Clinician’s Brief. 

At its inception, Clinician’s Brief was designated the top clinical resource for practicing companion animal veterinarians, providing robust and diverse review articles, cases, algorithms, quizzes, and myriad other pieces of clinical content. 

But much has changed in the last 20 years. Our industry—and thus, our daily work—has become increasingly more complex.

To further surround and support you as you navigate these new complexities, we expanded our portfolio of products with point-of-care resources for both clinical (Plumb’s Pro) and drug (Plumb’s Veterinary Drugs) information. These ever-updated and ever-growing reference texts provide exhaustive and encyclopedic clinical sourcing that you can apply as you care for patients.

Clinician identity, though, is more than retaining facts. Most clinicians use heuristics, problem-solving skills, pattern recognition, and new information to work through the clinical decision-making process, in both formal and informal manners. 

There is an art to medicine, and the focus of the new Clinician’s Brief exists in the perpetual honing of diagnostic and therapeutic skills. The new Clinician’s Brief will allow you to hone your practice skills and result in the best outcomes, for both yourself and your patients.

We believe these changes give us the opportunity to serve you—our valued readers—with new and faster solutions while still remaining true to our core: reliable, practical information that you can put into practice immediately.