What could you do if you didn’t have to answer calls after hours?

They say “practice makes perfect,” but no medical practice has been perfected to the extent that it didn’t receive some sort of calls after hours. The trouble is, all those calls can add up. Let’s see what you could do if you had a service to take care of routine calls for you.

Read medical journals

Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “The law should remain stable, but should never stand still.” Much the same could be said of medicine. It’s important to keep up-to-date with the latest treatments, methodologies and breakthroughs. One key way to do this is by reading the latest medical journals — which you’d have time for if a call service took some of the workload off your back. If too much material goes unread, your practice risks becoming arcane at best and dangerous at worst.

Attend a seminar

If you had a company manning the phones after hours for you, you’d be free to attend medical seminars in the evenings or on weekends. You could go to one that lasted an hour or more, instilling you with the knowledge you need to help patients, while checking off continuing education credits you need to earn at the same time.

Relax

It may be a stretch, but if you had a call service handling patients’ non-urgent needs from 5 p.m. on, you might actually be able to relax after the workday ended!