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If you can't attend, check the Rounds or Front Page of VIN, or next Tuesday's VIN This Week, for links to the transcript of the discussion.

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NOTE: There will be no SUNDAY Rounds session this weekend.

The VIN Client Brochure was created as an easy way to explain to clients how being a VIN member impacts the quality of veterinary care that you provide. It also highlights the VIN client handout website, VeterinaryPartner.com, where your clients can learn more about health issues concerning their pets. VIN members can order a pack of 25 brochures for FREE in the VIN Bookstore.

Why Haven't I Gotten a Response to my Message Board Post yet?
The VIN consultants, associate editors, and reps make every effort to ensure you have a response within 48 hours (usually much sooner) of posting, but sometimes things don't go as planned.

To keep track of the huge number of posts per day, the wonderful VIN Representative Team, with the help of an automated system, monitors and tracks the age of threads needing a response. Posting to your own unanswered discussion to "refresh it" won't change the priority of your post.

Remember, VIN is colleagues helping colleagues, and the more input from all VINners, the better for all of us. So don't be shy about chiming in to help others, and don't be put off if your help comes from a fellow VINner or someone without a bunch of letters after their name.

If it's been more than 48 hours since you started your discussion, please email feedback@vin.com to let us know.

If you have any questions contact membership services or email to feedback@vin.com.

VIN Community Quick Polls
The first of these new one-question polls (some serious, some not so serious) launched on Monday, April 21. Over 1,400 VINners cast their votes for their preferred euthanasia solution for dogs and cats.

Voice your opinion! You'll find the Quick Poll on the left side of the front page under the Daily Pearl. This week's question is "How do you most commonly enter an exam room?"

Read the discussion to see how the idea came about and how you can contribute ideas for new polls.

NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK, reported for YOU...

• Veterinary private-practice sector makes modest rebound
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• Blue Buffalo advertising draws long history of complaints
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• The squeeze: What happens when owners can’t pay for veterinary care?
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• VCA Antech prevails in breach-of-contract suits
  Public | VIN | Discussion
• Tornadoes a reminder to veterinary clinics: Plan for disasters
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Evolving stories:

• Ins and outs of Canada’s new anti-spam law
• New price comparison site offends profession
• VCA offers to buy competing practices

Be a VIN newshound:
VNS is your news service. Have an idea for a story? Have a story that needs covering?
E-mail Reporters@vin.com.

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New and Revised Articles to Share With Your Clients!

Veterinary Partner

• Diagnosis of Heartworm Disease (revised)

Texas Farm Radio

• Steel versus Aluminum Horseshoes

VetzInsight

• Tip Toe through the Toxic Tulips

Clinical approach to advanced renal function testing in dogs and cats
Advanced renal function tests, including glomerular filtration rate testing, determining fractional excretion of electrolytes, and assay of urine biomarkers, may allow earlier detection of reduced renal function mass, differentiation of renal from non-renal causes of azotemia, and assist with localization of damage.

Diagnosis of small intestinal disorders in dogs and cats
Laboratory tests are an important part of the workup of small intestinal diseases in dogs and cats. This article details the newest available data on tests to aid this diagnostic process.

Using cardiac biomarkers in veterinary practice
Increasingly, studies indicate that cardiac biomarker testing can help assess the risk of morbidity and mortality in animals with heart disease.

Work-In/Walk-In Appointments: Suggestions On Scheduling And Staff Training
Some of this is training your clients/staff. Some of this is fixing your appointment calendar so things run smoother. At my clinic...

Technician With Performance And Attitude Problems: Can I Discuss My Suspicions Of Mental Health Issues?
In a job performance/review setting you can, and should, address the behavioral issues you are witnessing, and examine whether these behaviors can be remedied or not. You can give the employee the opportunity to express his concerns, and you can see whether you are able to accommodate those concerns or behavioral issues.

Symptomatic Stage 3 Heartworm Dog: Should I Start Immiticide (Melarsomine) Immediately, Or Treat With Prednisone And Minocycline First?
Killing the worms will initially make things worse, so you would like to have him in better shape before treating. Something like 80% of these dogs live to tell the tale.

Risk Evaluation And Mitigation Strategy (REMS) For Extended Release Opioids: Is Training Required For Veterinarians?
Do REMS-compliant training programs apply to veterinarians? I received a letter (page 26 on the link) from the ER/LA Opioid Analgesic Companies (I assume companies who make extended-release/long acting opioids) which hinted at mandatory training for DEA registrants. A quick search brought up this FDA link, which lists medicine, nursing, and dentistry as branches of medine they were targeting. I couldn't tell if this was mandatory for human-only prescribers or all DEA registrants.

VIN/VECCS Rounds
Monday, May 19 - 9 p.m. ET
Join David Liss, BA, RVT, VTS (ECC, SAIM), CVPM, for Nursing Management of the Septic Patient.
*This session will feature audio. Take the readiness test before attending.

VIN Rounds
No Sunday Rounds this weekend.

Venting Over a Venti
Tuesday, May 20 - 9:30 p.m. ET
Need to vent? Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP, MA, and other colleagues are here to lend an ear.

How to Use VIN: Part 3
Wednesday, May 21 - 9:30 p.m. ET
Join the VIN Representative Committee to learn how to get more out of your VIN experience. Email HowTo@VIN.com for more information about this free, three-session course.

Need help remembering when Rounds sessions are happening? Check out the list of ways to be reminded about VIN Rounds sessions.

Full Rounds Schedule and Countdown Clock

Want to See What You've Been Missing?
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• Tips & Tools: MyActivities
• Mastering Common Client Challenges VIN/VECCS (R)
• Addicted to Perfection? (R) @
• Before you Buy your Veterinary Practice @
• VIN News Service: From Suicide to Free Speech @

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VIN News Service (VNS) Drug and Food Recall Center
The VIN community asked for an easier way to keep up with breaking recall news. The VIN geeks listened and have created an RSS feed for the Drug and Food Recall Center. Subscribe to the RSS feed here.

You'll find a list of the most recent recalls, links to other helpful resources and an archive of past recalls. You can also get to the Drug and Food Recall Center from the VINdex (Ctrl+E).

Book Review of the Week
BSAVA Manual of Exotic Pets, Fifth Edition
Catch up on previous Book Reviews!

Website of the Week
Active Minds

MyVIN Update
The Update Credit Card screen has a new look!

eVetsites Tip of the Week
SEO 102 (Content is King)

From the Medical FAQs
Backyard Poultry

From the Message Boards
Get to know the VIN Consultants and Associate Editors! In Urology, hobbies include guitar playing, rugby, rock-climbing, yoga, singing, urasenke, aerial performance arts, and dressage

Upcoming Conferences
Looking to attend or contribute a paper to a veterinary conference? Check out the On the Road with VIN folder or the Press Releases folder to see what conferences are coming up and to visit their websites! Links to information about upcoming conferences include: AVA, ACVIM, EVECCS, and ISFM.

My 5-year-old is Smarter than Most Teenagers
"So, I totally have to brag about my little girl here. For Mother's Day, she made me a bunch of little cards with pictures and phrases like, "I love you, Mommy." There was one she made that said, "You're the best." Spelled "you're" just like that. I was so proud of my little girl. The your/you're and their/there/they're are those grammatical things that I hate the most."

NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
Click on the links below to see the details, register, and find more upcoming CE.

Backyard Poultry Medicine
June 6 - July 9, 2014

This course is intended to help those veterinarians and their technicians become more familiar with diagnosing and treating conditions of poultry commonly encountered in the backyard setting.

Oncology and Tumor Pathology II
July 8 - August 29, 2014

This course will familiarize participants with the current state of tumor diagnosis and prognosis as well as therapeutic interventions. The first real time session will provide an overview of principles and advances in surgical pathology and an introduction to clinical oncology, and is a review of the basic information covered during the first real time session for DIAG300-0414: Oncology and Tumor Pathology I. This course will cover canine/feline histiocytic diseases, canine/feline soft tissue sarcomas, canine/feline osteosarcoma, canine melanomas, and canine/feline mammary tumors.

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