Video messaging can increase your patient's chance of success post care. Embracing this tech is something I've long advocated for. Sending a patient home with printed or verbal instructions is a great start, but paper is frequently lost and recommendations forgotten. Since we all have phones in our pockets, let's go a little further and create documentation that can be revisited regularly and is unlikely to disappear during the hectic trip home. And permanence isn't the only benefit. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video must be worth a million. Specific techniques, like dressing changes, for example, can be hard to put on paper. Video lets the patient see exactly how it should be done.