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Hey guys down here. 
Welcome to Podiatry Practice 

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Mastery. 
Today I am trying something a 

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little bit different. 
Here I am trying to use 

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something called Riverside. 
This is a new thing within the 

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podcast and Spotify, that's 
where I record things. 

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It's called Spotify Podcast, 
it's called Riverside. 

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So they're doing a video and 
audio. 

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So I don't know how it'll be for
you in terms of if you're going 

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to be listening to the audio or 
the video, but this, this first 

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one I want to go over my one 
year follow up or my one year 

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review about using a scribe. 
So I've been using a scribe, the

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same scribe actually for about a
year now and I would go over the

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results specifically the finance
finances behind it. 

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So I have my end of the year 
numbers. 

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We finally met up and talked 
about that. 

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So my there's like what I 
produced and like kind of what 

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the what the clinic produced, 
what when each doctor produced. 

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So we you basically produced 
slightly over 3 million. 

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OK for for doctor practice I 
produced 1,052,255 and my 

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previous best year was around 
800 and and I think a lot of 

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this has to do from my scribe. 
So I just want to say like if 

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you're thinking about using a 
scribe, this might be a good 

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reason, but I want to talk about
kind of the good, bad and the 

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ugly and how I could make my 
scribes job a little bit better.

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So the good is I am much more 
relaxed, I enjoy treating 

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patients more. 
I can just do my my 

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presentation. 
So if you haven't heard of that,

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you can go to 
patientpresentations.com. 

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So what I do currently is I just
pull up the slide deck, show the

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patient and then there also I 
have my treatment sheets. 

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So I just fill out the treatment
sheets. 

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Murali does a lot of other 
things for me. 

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So he sends out my patient 
education information, which I 

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use from patient education 
genius. 

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He scheduled surgeries for me 
through my medical, through my 

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scheduler. 
He orders all my medications, 

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all the labs for like LFTS, 
whatever medication I'm doing. 

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He does the whole note, puts in 
the Medicaid medication 

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management thing, puts in all 
the discussion. 

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I've kind of trained him. 
He has the templates. 

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He does a really good job and 
then I just check every like 3 

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to 4 patients. 
Maybe every five patients I'll 

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go through and run through and 
check it and takes me a lot less

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time. 
So the benefit is I'm not having

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to spend an hour or longer at 
the end of the day or wait till 

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the next day where I can't 
remember things. 

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So it's really, really made my 
life, you know, I would say 5 to

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10 times better. 
I was a slow adopter and I'm 

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kind of an early adopter for 
things, but I was kind of a slow

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adopter to this just because I 
had to sell my my colleagues on 

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it and say, hey, I'm going to do
this because my other two 

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partners are not using the 
Scribe. 

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My Scribe is in my pocket, so 
it's it's with a cell phone. 

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I have an extra cell phone that 
I put in my pocket and he 

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listens to me all day long. 
So it's it's been great. 

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What are some of the things that
weren't so good? 

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Well, the, I guess the 
$33,628.00 that Murali cost me 

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wasn't so good, but in terms of 
like the quality of, I think my 

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billing has gone up. 
I'm able to see at least one, 

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one or two more patients per day
and most importantly though like

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the quality of my life has has 
gone up now after about a year 

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and he's starting to tell me 
what I can do to make his job a 

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little bit easier. 
And I'm going to go over two 

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things that if I could do it 
over again I probably would have

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done different with with 
Raleigh. 

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Number one, I would give him 
time in between patients. 

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So I we're so used to running 
from one patient encounter to 

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the next to the next. 
And what I found is, since he's 

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doing such in depth notes, 
because my notes are actually 

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better than when I do my notes, 
I need to give him some some 

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time. 
Now it took me a whole year to 

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learn this and he's mentioned it
kind of in passing frequently to

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me, but I just never really paid
attention. 

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But recently I've done that. 
So I after I finish, I come back

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into my office and kind of do 
things like this or record other

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videos or things like that that 
I like to do or other stuff. 

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And and then he finishes the 
note. 

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When he's done, he tells me. 
Then I go see the next patient. 

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That 2 to 3 minutes is the same 
time that I used to take to do 

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the notes or or even longer when
I was doing the notes at the end

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of the day. 
So it all stays fresh in his 

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mind and that he's not going to 
have to take notes on. 

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He's tried a couple of other 
things he's tried like a a chat 

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bot that would record it, so 
that makes his job a little bit 

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easier. 
So if it records the the 

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sessions in a in a chat format 
like a transcription that made 

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it easier for him and then you 
know then otherwise he just had 

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to like play catch up. 
So I find it it's really only a 

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minute or two so but it really 
makes his life a lot easier. 

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Problem with me is when I come 
to my office I tend to get 

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distracted and work on one of my
other projects that I'm I was 

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working on. 
The second thing I've learned 

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that's good is is a lot of times
with the cell phone the way I 

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use it some in my pocket I he 
doesn't always hear what the 

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patient says. 
So as I'm talking to the patient

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he hears better from me because 
I am close to the microphone. 

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He's not as close. 
I thought about using like a 

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pedestal in the treatment room. 
I do not do that. 

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I know a friend, he uses the 
Google Glasses. 

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I do not do that either. 
But what I've started to do, and

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I think it's good actually for 
the patient encounter is now I 

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repeat everything back to the 
patient. 

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So I I not everything. 
But when they say something that

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I'll just kind of do repeat the 
repeat method, which is kind of 

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a method of treating patients 
right, you're back what they 

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said to make sure you got 
everything. 

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If there's anything else you 
repeat back kind of what they're

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dealing with, what treatments 
they've tried and things like 

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that. 
So I think it makes better for 

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his notes as well. 
So we can do a very good 

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subjective and and the plan that
we're going to be doing for him.

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So that's just my, my take away.
I think it's good to give my 

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feedback after a year we had, we
had a good year. 

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I think anyone that does over a 
million and you do, you do good.

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You you work hard. 
For the next year, I'd like to 

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work maybe a little bit less 
because there are down times 

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like now we're in in February, 
so it's a little bit less like 

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super busy. 
And there are other times that 

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it's very, very super busy. 
But that's my take away on 

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scribing. 
And there will be, there's like 

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a full whole like a training 
within practice Mastery Academy 

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about describing about how to 
train ascribe and all the other 

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things. 
But hopefully this was 

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beneficial to you and hope you 
like this new thing via 

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Riverside that I'm using within 
the studio. 

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OK, let me I'd love to know kind
of what your thoughts are.