Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.

This is Sarah Hart Unger and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

As I record this today is September 14th and I have just finished a really

tough work week. When I take call clinically, I am on call for seven days and seven nights

straight and let me tell you those are not necessarily my favorite weeks of the year and that

is definitely an understatement. I started off with all kinds

of great intentions, but it turned out that this past call week, it was very busy, so I definitely

entered survival mode, and I didn't do all of my planning rituals that I normally do, because really,

the main thing I had to plan was which patients I had to go see and which notes I had to write.

I relied heavily on a notebook, actually, that I got from Simplified.

It's a kind of a soft cover, almost throwaway.

I mean, not throw away, but it's like a staple bound notebook.

And I've been using it to track patients while I'm on call.

I have to be very careful to keep this with me and shred it when I'm been using it to track patience while I'm on call. I have to be very careful to

keep this with me and shred it when I'm done as it does have patient information written in it.

But it's the way that I track who I've seen, who I still have to see, who needs a note written,

who needs orders placed. And that was my main planning companion over this past week.

So I'm grateful to have that happy rainbow stripe little notebook,

and I think I will buy more from when that one runs out for future call weeks.

But now I'm done, and life is opening back up again,

and I'm catching up with everything,

and I'm excited to bring you today's episode.

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