QUARTERLY BEAT / DECEMBER 2025
September 25, 2025
October 2, 2025
How to Create a Collaborative Team Where Everyone Can Contribute by Dr. Laura Pletz • True collaboration depends on the four C’s: cognizance, communication, coordination, and cooperation. • Collaborative environments drive innovation, engagement, and retention — but they thrive only when everyone shares a common goal or purpose. • For more collaborative meetings: ◦ Rotate meeting leaders to give others a chance to guide discussion. ◦ Use tools and techniques that encourage active participation. ◦ Challenge assumptions and promote healthy, respectful debate. ◦ Focus on building consensus rather than competition. ◦ Follow-up is the bridge between discussion and action. • Psychological safety is the foundation of collaboration — without it, even the most well-intentioned teams can’t thrive.
Practical Principles for Becoming an Effective Communicator by Dr. Sally Ryan, SHRM-CP
• The two A’s in being a masterful communicator are active listening and assertive communication. Together, they form the backbone of trust, collaboration, and influence. • Active listening means listening to understand, not just to respond. Its five steps are: ◦ Pay attention
◦ Withhold judgment ◦ Reflect and validate ◦ Clarify ◦ Summarize and share
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• Assertive communication involves the clear and direct expression of our feelings and needs, while being respectful of others. • Of the four communication styles — passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive — assertive communication fosters the healthiest professional and personal relationships. • We can strengthen assertiveness through our language, tone, and body language: use “I” statements, state opinions without preface, minimize over-apologizing, and maintain a calm, open posture with direct eye contact.
Diuretic Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure by Dr. Gordon Peddle, DACVIM (Cardiology) • Most diuretics work by blocking sodium reabsorption somewhere along the renal tubule — so their class name comes from where they act within the nephron.
• Diuretic resistance can begin within 24 hours of loop diuretic use, reducing the response to the same dose over time.
• Torsemide is a long-acting loop diuretic that’s 10–20× more potent than furosemide in dogs and cats (closer to 20× at doses > 0.2 mg/kg/day). Once-daily dosing is often sufficient. • Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) may seem weak in healthy patients but becomes a powerful add-on in chronic heart failure, targeting hypertrophied distal convoluted tubule (DCT) cells that adapt to long-term loop diuretic exposure.
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