Organizational Ergonomics

After writing this blog for a few years now, I realized that I haven’t explained what I do for my “day job” as an HQHVSN veterinarian. I am the Executive Director and Veterinarian at Spay ASAP Inc., a MASH-style spay neuter clinic in Vermont and New Hampshire. (Parts of the content for this post are … Continue reading “MASH Clinics”

Those of you who have spent any time with me during the past 2 years have probably heard about my work as the editor of the long-awaited Spay Neuter Textbook. Well, it’s finally here! The e-book version has been available for a few months, but the print copies just arrived at the publisher’s this week. … Continue reading “The Spay Neuter Textbook is Here!”

Years ago, in 2011, I set out to study spay neuter veterinarians with the aim of finding out about musculoskeletal pain risk factors and what we might be able to do about them. The resulting study was published here, but as with many research surveys, I collected data as background information that never made it … Continue reading “The HQHVSN Workplace”

MASH spay and neuter clinics are nothing new for me: during the past 13 years I’ve done well over 1000 MASH clinic days in Vermont and New Hampshire. My own MASH clinics are small: one veterinarian, one veterinary technician, and between 2 and 10 other volunteers or shelter staff. We set up our clinic for … Continue reading “Mega-MASH clinic: The Spayathon for Puerto Rico”

This week’s Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) contains an article about the people and the animals who use nonprofit spay neuter clinics. The full title of the study is Characteristics of clients and animals served by high-volume, stationary, nonprofit spay-neuter clinics. I conducted this study along my co-authors Julie Levy and Jan Scarlett, two superstars of … Continue reading “Who uses Spay Neuter Clinics?”

My first week back at work after my nephrostomy and abdominal drain were placed, I had a major wardrobe malfunction. I was wearing a leg bag on each leg, strapped to the front of my thigh with elastic bands. I was kneeling on the floor, examining a large, handsome hound dog, and I felt a … Continue reading “Complicated, Part 3”

This week, The Association of Shelter Veterinarians’ 2016 Veterinary Medical Care Guidelines for Spay-Neuter Programs was published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. With this new publication, the 2008 Guidelines have been updated to reflect findings from new research as well as to integrate research and ideas from beyond the traditional confines … Continue reading “Spay-Neuter Guidelines: New and Improved!”