MYRTLE BEACH, SC – Sept. 28, 2026

Dogs have become treasured family members, yet the system that helps owners care for them is under increasing strain. Pet owners are overwhelmed by conflicting advice, rising veterinary costs, and endless information online. Veterinarians are facing growing caseloads, shorter appointments, staffing challenges, and enormous emotional demands.

According to Walsh, both sides want the same thing: a healthier, happier life for the dog. The problem is that they don’t always start from the same place.

“The central relationship between veterinarians and dog owners has fractured,” Walsh writes. “If we could help veterinarians and dog owners communicate more effectively and align their goals and expectations, we could improve the lives of millions of dogs.”

In Good Dogs, Broken System, Walsh introduces readers to the Coerenza Approach, his framework for creating a more complete and collaborative model of canine care.

Derived from the concept of coherence, the Coerenza Approach organizes a dog’s well-being around five interconnected pillars:

• Exercise
• Enrichment
• Environment
• Nutrition
• Responsibility, including the dog’s role within the family

Rather than treating health, behavior, nutrition, environment, and the human-animal relationship as separate issues, Walsh shows dog owners and veterinary professionals how these elements influence one another. The result is a shared framework that helps owners better understand what they see at home while giving veterinarians more useful information to guide care.

Throughout the book, readers discover how seemingly unrelated problems can often be connected. A restless dog may need more than training. A senior dog losing interest in daily life may need more than medical treatment. Behavioral challenges, changes in mobility, anxiety, nutrition, environment, and family routines can all provide important clues when viewed as part of the whole dog.

Walsh also takes readers behind the examination-room door to reveal the pressures facing veterinary professionals and why rushed appointments, rising prices, and communication breakdowns are often symptoms of a much larger problem.

The book includes practical tools designed to make that collaboration easier, including a Coerenza Assessment Worksheet, collaborative care plan, pillar-by-pillar checklists, and a conversation guide owners can use with their veterinary teams.

Good Dogs, Broken System also features a foreword by Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, Chief Veterinary Officer of dvm360 Network, who describes the Coerenza Approach as a way to give owners and veterinarians the same map for caring for the dog in front of them.

At the center of the book is a powerful idea: owners possess something a veterinarian can never duplicate, daily knowledge of their dog. Veterinarians bring clinical expertise, diagnostic skill, and medical experience. Better canine care becomes possible when those two perspectives work together.

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About the Author

Dr. Tom Walsh, DVM, CCAT, CCRP, MBA, began his professional career in telecommunications but always knew his true calling was helping animals. He ultimately followed that calling into veterinary medicine, spending close to a decade as a general-practice veterinarian before devoting his work to small-animal rehabilitation.

Dr. Walsh founded PrimePet Rehabilitation Therapy, originally as a mobile veterinary rehabilitation and physical therapy service. He later expanded the practice into a permanent rehabilitation center in downtown Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where he has helped thousands of animals recover from injury, improve performance, and maintain mobility.

His work in veterinary medicine and rehabilitation led him to develop the Coerenza Approach. This framework brings dog owners and veterinary professionals together around five interconnected areas of canine well-being: Exercise, Enrichment, Environment, Nutrition, and Responsibility.

Dr. Walsh is also a national speaker at veterinary and technology conferences, webinars, and podcasts and has been inducted as a lifetime member of Marquis Who’s Who in America.

To learn more about Dr. Tom Walsh and the Coerenza Approach, visit TheCoerenzaApproach.com.