This board is excellent. This stuff has very little to do with AC really. You guys are just helping me on my workflow and I appreciate it.
Leslie: The difference in having a new patient in 20 min versus 30 min isn't about charting. It's about seeing more patients in a day while the office doors are open. The charting is secondary. One of the biggest advantages to my practice over other general surgeons in the area is that I can get a patient in the same week or the next week at the latest (Oh, and the fact that I'm not a complete hack helps)
On busy days, the girls often schedule surgeries and such after clinic and call the patients with the times. That clears the patients out of there.
I do almost all of my office procedures by myself as well.
Wendell: Agree with global template. Would make AC ridiculously fast to chart with on at least 50% of my patients.
Bert: I talked to my front girl today and she says that the demographics are almost always in before we see the patient. She just verifies it and moves on.
So really, you guys are trying to tell me to shut up and teach my people how to get the stuff in the chart before I see the patient. Got it. I'm just stubborn. Don't you guys know how surgeons are?
