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Hey all,

I'd like to schedule patients for an 8am slot, then BLOCK OFF the 8:15, and open back up for the normal schedule at 8:30.

Any suggestions

Possible, but not straightforward options:

Make an "8am appointment type" that is 30 min long (most of ours are set at 15 min. Nurses/Secretaries would have to 'remember' to schedule that 8am patient using the '8am appointment type'

Manually add an 8:15 block for every weekday for the next 2 years (not spending 3/4 hours doing that crap.

Only option I can come up with would be to schedule the break at that time, but then you would not be able to schedule out lunch. You can only block out 1 section a day.

schedule in a dummy patient like Nyota Uhura or EDI-Test for that time slot.

Wendell: That may work, although all the appointments scheduled at 8:15 already are overwritten.

Wayne: Thats another possibility, but The manual labor aspect of filling that slot for every specific day for the next X months is time consuming

A simple (but not particularly elegant) solution: set up the schedule to start at 8:15. Tell anyone doing the scheduling "it says 8:15, but it is really 8:00." Anytime they schedule a patient, tell the patient it is for 8 (even though the slot says it is 8:15).