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Hands on a foot, not on a receiver.
Fully booked all day, 30-minute treatments, no secretary: the phone waits between patients — sometimes for hours. Calls mean recurring patients (diabetics, long-term care) and new ones (acute pain, orthotics). A patient who can't get through takes the first podiatrist available on Google Maps.
30 %
missed calls (industry order of magnitude)
50 $ / séance
average job value
≈ $450 in lost sessions / month
estimated missed jobs / month
< 10 s
text delay to your customer
The problem
Where it leaks
Fully booked all day, 30-minute treatments, no secretary: the phone waits between patients — sometimes for hours. Calls mean recurring patients (diabetics, long-term care) and new ones (acute pain, orthotics). A patient who can't get through takes the first podiatrist available on Google Maps.
The fix
What Signal does
Signal sends a text in <10 s confirming the request and offering a slot in your real availability. AI distinguishes routine care, custom orthotics and acute pain, and offers the right appointment type. You keep control of the calendar, without interrupting a single treatment.
Benefits
What Podiatrists gain with Signal
- 01
<10 s text: the patient doesn't slip away to the podiatrist across the street
- 02
Care, orthotics or urgency identified before any callback
- 03
Appointments booked in your real slots, at the right duration
- 04
Recurring patients recognized and rescheduled as priority
- 05
Nursing-home visits covered by the same flow
FAQ
Podiatrists: your questions
My recurring patients expect to reach me. Won't a text annoy them?
No, because it arrives instantly and offers a callback — the opposite of silence. The diabetic patient on follow-up understands you're in treatment, not on break. And the callback goes out right after, with their file already pulled up.
Can the AI take custom orthotics requests?
It takes the request and books the right block: orthotics need a first casting appointment then a fitting — you set the durations and AI chains the two slots. It also flags the useful documents (prescription, everyday shoes). You only step in for the treatment itself.
Is acute pain an emergency?
AI detects it as priority (inflammation, unable to walk, post-surgery) and flags it at the top of your queue. You call back between patients and keep control over fitting an urgent visit into the day. You decide the severity — but you decide it informed.
My oldest patients don't read texts.
Some, yes — but it's often a child or caregiver calling to arrange transport and care. The text offers a callback, and AI can record a "voice call only" preference for that number. Nobody gets locked into a channel they don't use.
I'm at a nursing home all day on Tuesdays. What about the office?
That's exactly the kind of slot where Signal takes over: texting, qualification, bookings against your next day's opening hours. Your Tuesday calls wait, sorted, for your return. None drift to a competitor because the line rang into nothing.
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