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    <title>Front office management for the veterinary team</title>
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    <namePart>Prendergast, Heather</namePart>
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    <edition>Second edition.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>vii, 483 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Veterinary health care team members -- The receptionist team -- Team leadership -- Veterinary ethics and legal issues -- Human resources -- Stress, burnout and compassion fatigue -- Practice design -- Technology in the office -- Outside diagnostic laboratory services -- Marketing -- Client communication and customer service -- Interacting with a grieving client -- Appointment management -- Medical records management -- Inventory management -- Controlled substances -- Logs -- Accounts receivable -- Pet health insurance and wellness plans -- Finance management -- Safety in the veterinary practice -- Security -- Clinical assisting -- Calculations and conversions -- Professional development.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Heather Prendergast, BS, AS, RVT, CVPM, Certified Veterinary Practice Manager, Synergie Consulting, Las Cruces, New Mexico.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Veterinary services</topic>
    <topic>Administration</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Animal health technicians</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Office management</topic>
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    <topic>Veterinary Medicine</topic>
    <topic>organization &amp; administration</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Animal Technicians</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Office Management</topic>
    <topic>organization &amp; administration</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Practice Management, Medical</topic>
    <topic>organization &amp; administration</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Veterinarians</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">SF756.4 .P74 2015</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780323261852 (pbk. : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">032326185X (pbk. : alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">2013042884</identifier>
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