Hi, my name is Don Pelt. Oh, and welcome to the Podiatry
management minutes. Hey guys, down here.
I want to talk about this tip today, might be obvious to
everyone but this goes back to something that we should do and
we might not be doing, it's calling our patients after
surgery. This is something I was taught
to do as a resident. I think a lot of you guys were
as well, and I have a little kind of a high tech high tech
tip to it though. So with calling patients, I call
them the night of surgery, let so I usually do surgeries on
Wednesday when I do them and then I'll call them Wednesday
night and And, you know, you can just take the face sheet from
the from the o.r. and call them. It's really good.
Tip, if you're just starting out though, what I would say is, if
you're in practice, you want to. Wow, your patients.
So I would call everyone. Basically, if you do a
paronychia or a matrix ectomy, call them at night to see how
they're doing. If you need a kind of a way to
do that, okay? This is kind of a high tech tip.
What I do, there's an app called follow-up, then.com, okay?
And so what it does is it sends me a text Message on on like the
on that Wednesday of the month, when I do my surgeries at 5 p.m.
so it reminds me it sends me a text message to call my post-op
patients and it gives me a link of how to log into my EMR and
get that phone number. So that's kind of a high-tech
way to remind yourself if you have a hard time remembering it
but a very easy way is you just was kind of right down the
patients that you saw and then write down their phone numbers
or have a staff do it. I've also there's another kind
of cool thing you can do is you can do something called Todoist,
Tod o is T. It can be added onto your groom
browser on Google Google Chrome. And what you do is you put their
name and just put a little reminder and then you can open
up that browser and it'll you can just it have those names you
can just check them off when you're done, that's a real easy
way. Like you're in the treatment
room, you're seeing a patient, you do procedure, you pull up to
doest, put their phone number their name.
And, and then it'll remind you at the end of the day to call
them. So, kind of some high-tech ways
to remember because sometimes we get real busy, we're seeing
patients, but those are a couple of good ones.
And once again, hope you guys found this helpful.
Okay, thanks.