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Hi, my name is Don Pelt. 
Oh, and welcome to the Podiatry 

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management minutes. 
Hey guys, down here. 

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I want to talk about this tip 
today, might be obvious to 

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everyone but this goes back to 
something that we should do and 

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we might not be doing, it's 
calling our patients after 

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surgery. 
This is something I was taught 

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to do as a resident. 
I think a lot of you guys were 

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as well, and I have a little 
kind of a high tech high tech 

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tip to it though. 
So with calling patients, I call

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them the night of surgery, let 
so I usually do surgeries on 

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Wednesday when I do them and 
then I'll call them Wednesday 

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night and And, you know, you can
just take the face sheet from 

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the from the o.r. and call them.
It's really good. 

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Tip, if you're just starting out
though, what I would say is, if 

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you're in practice, you want to.
Wow, your patients. 

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So I would call everyone. 
Basically, if you do a 

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paronychia or a matrix ectomy, 
call them at night to see how 

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they're doing. 
If you need a kind of a way to 

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do that, okay? 
This is kind of a high tech tip.

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What I do, there's an app called
follow-up, then.com, okay? 

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And so what it does is it sends 
me a text Message on on like the

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on that Wednesday of the month, 
when I do my surgeries at 5 p.m.

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so it reminds me it sends me a 
text message to call my post-op 

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patients and it gives me a link 
of how to log into my EMR and 

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get that phone number. 
So that's kind of a high-tech 

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way to remind yourself if you 
have a hard time remembering it 

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but a very easy way is you just 
was kind of right down the 

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patients that you saw and then 
write down their phone numbers 

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or have a staff do it. 
I've also there's another kind 

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of cool thing you can do is you 
can do something called Todoist,

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Tod o is T. 
It can be added onto your groom 

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browser on Google Google Chrome.
And what you do is you put their

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name and just put a little 
reminder and then you can open 

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up that browser and it'll you 
can just it have those names you

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can just check them off when 
you're done, that's a real easy 

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way. 
Like you're in the treatment 

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room, you're seeing a patient, 
you do procedure, you pull up to

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doest, put their phone number 
their name. 

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And, and then it'll remind you 
at the end of the day to call 

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them. 
So, kind of some high-tech ways 

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to remember because sometimes we
get real busy, we're seeing 

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patients, but those are a couple
of good ones. 

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And once again, hope you guys 
found this helpful. 

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Okay, thanks.