The work list. Don’t leave home without it.
Some much focus on touch ups is getting everything done right to spare another revisit, or as if in the case of the Italian patient, revising the work of another. It is essential patients come in with a written work list of their critique to which we add ours as well. Sure we know that some day, another physician will be seeing our work and we want our patients to look as good as possible. We also ask that the work list be prioritized in the unlikely event it is not possible to attend to every little detail or a procedure has to be staged.
Then we take that work list and it gets posted with 3M tape on the American Olean tiled OR wall and we dare not leave the operating room without referring to it several times to be sure, all that can be done is done. Yes, we work for smiles. And there is no shortage of hand held mirrors in every exam and operating area.
Harold M. Reed, M.D.
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