[PMM] #4 - Send RX prior to surgery

Hi dr. Bell toll. Welcome back to the Podiatry management minute. I want to talk today about sending prescriptions prior to doing surgery in the uh, in the hospital. So this is something that I learned a while back and it makes my life a lot easier. Because what was the problem before is I used to get to the hospital? And I had to have patients, get the prescriptions and they had to do it prior to going back home and sometimes that was kind of a confusing thing for them. Okay.

It was it was getting the the prescriptions So what I find works a lot better now. Is that I have patients, they get the prescription before. How do you logistically do that? And also people get concerned oh, what happens. If they fill it and they use it before what happens if you know they're Seekers and I understand all of these things.

So let me explain my process. So I have patients that come in for something called a pre-surgical discussion where I go over all the kind of the benefits of surgery, the risks, everything like that. They sign their paperwork. I'm over my patient presentation on the pre-surgical. Action. So, if you want to learn about that, you can go to Patient presentations.com and you can

kind of look at all those. And then what I do after I look at the prescription monitoring report to make sure they're they're not a Seeker or anything like that, then I can put it in the medical record. I have a all my prescriptions so usually it's Percocet, visceral and then Motrin and they pop up automatically but I can change the date so I can send it to their Pharmacy, but I'll change it. Oh, so I do surgeries on Wednesdays when I do them.

And so I send them on Monday so I moved them three days before of the surgical day. 8, and they actually arrived on the Monday. So I have the patient go there. A couple of days before the surgery to get them. I don't do it. When I'm signing the consent paperwork at day, they do it a couple days before, so it won't be an issue. So once again, that's what I would do that. So thank you for the Podiatry management. If you guys have any other thoughts or comments, please

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