I love that schedule. In residency there were a few that did some variation of that. Great work life balance...
I agree with DPM Tooth (for once) that early week surgery is good so any complications, questions, bled through bandage, etc come in later in the work week, not the weekend. Complications should be rare on elective surgery if technique and pre-op visit were good, but those issues still happen.
Mondays are nuts, though. There is good reason they are always the least popular and least busy days at any hospital or ASC. To say they're a top choice day is taking what's available and then saying you wanted that all along. The surgery staff are dragging, patients or staff are more likely to arrive late, patients sometimes forget altogether (just like in clinic, since they were called and reminded days prior), and Mondays are a rough enough day even when you don't start extra early. Also, in PP, your staff are usually going to slack and pretend to be busy when you're out of office regardless, but doubly so on a Monday... they will find ways to "work from home" or generally do nothing.
I think Tue and Wed are the prime days to do surgery, and they're relatively available at a lot of facilities. A lot of Ortho, Gen, other MDs like Thu and Fri the best, so those are likely to be blocked out by one surgeon or another at most places. Both, esp Fridays, have the obvious downside of patients calling or having issues on the weekend. That's no a huge issue for Urology, Vasc, Ortho, etc who have PAs and partners on call, but for most DPMs, it's not ideal. Fridays are a good day to just finish office early if you're on productivity pay or take off if you are employed/FI and you can finesse that.
