The surgeon’s schedules are determined only after OR, on-call, and cast clinic schedules are released.  Generally these schedules are released a month in advance.  So while we would like to be able to book a few months in advance (and have you book your follow-up before leaving the office), the reality is we only know the schedule a month or so in advance.

Unfortunately we cannot call you to book your follow-up.  Due to the number of individuals who we would have to contact, as well as the complexity of scheduling multiple patients in multiple time points from when the surgeon last saw them, it would be too difficult and would come with a high risk of missing some patients.  We thus ask that you be responsible for contacting our office 1 month in advance of when your surgeon wanted to see you next.

We appreciate your understanding & assistance in this regard.