Columns

Editor's Letter

Kathy Ruby, PhD, June 29, 2011

As I write this month’s letter, I’m in the comfortable vantage point of being a baby-boomer. My days of juggling day care, kindergarten field trips, and soccer games are behind me.

Emotional Intelligence: The View from My Glass House

By Kathleen Ruby, PhD, August 1, 2011

My task this month was to write about the benefits of developing emotional intelligence skills—the ability to recognize and manage one’s own emotions to meet life’s challenges. Instead, I want to share my own struggles with practicing what I preach.

Servant Leadership in Veterinary Medicine

Richard DeBowes, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVS, July 1, 2009

While the words “leader” and “servant” combined seem to be an oxymoron, servant leadership can be a powerful—even transformational—force in shaping relationships and interactions between groups of individuals.

Gender & Generation

Kathleen Ruby, PhD, September 11, 2009

As I write this, I think back over my own career path from young college graduate to my current plethora of concurrent career posts as faculty member, counselor, consultant, and editor in chief of EVT.

In my 30-year career journey, I’ve also raised two wonderful daughters who are now embarking on careers of their own and supported my husband in his work as a family physician in a large multidoctor practice.

Editor’s Letter

Exceptional Veterinary Team, November 1, 2011

The very words, medical malpractice suit, can cause even the most stalwart doctor to shudder. Even if most of us have never experienced the impact of legal intervention, we all know someone who has.

Editor’s Letter

Kathleen Ruby, PhD, Editor in Chief, January 4, 2012

“Dr. Ruby, there’s obviously nothing I can do to help you see that I’m a good person and that I do care about our clients. I just made a simple mistake. Why won’t you believe me?”