Your First Hour Back After a Long Weekend

It's Tuesday morning after Thanksgiving. You had three days off. Maybe you rested. Maybe you checked your inbox from the couch once or twice.

Either way, you know what's waiting. Three days of patient messages. Voicemails. Booking requests, a reschedule, a supplement question, a lab result that came in Friday afternoon. Your first hour back goes to figuring out what needs you, and you're behind for the rest of the day.

Now picture it differently! 

You open your inbox and it's already sorted. The reschedule is done. The booking requests are on the calendar. The supplement question is flagged for you with the patient's chart linked. The lab result is at the top, marked for review. Everything that needs you is in one place. Everything that doesn't is already handled.

You spend your first hour back with your first patient. Not your inbox.

That's what a long weekend is supposed to feel like. Not three days off followed by a day of paying for it.

Your patients notice the difference too. Their messages got answered. Their appointments got moved. Nobody waited until Wednesday to hear back.

If that's what your Tuesday looked like, reply and tell me what was waiting for you. I'll show you how much of it could have been handled before you walked in.