Case study: Trident Anesthesia
Trident Anesthesia retired their call spreadsheet six months ago.
One partner used to spend ten hours a month building the schedule by hand. Now they review and publish the draft we deliver — modeled around the unwritten rules generic software ignores.
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The problem
There are one or two people in your group who cannot take a real vacation.
One of them owns the monthly call schedule: post-call rules, weekends, holidays, every request that came in by text. The other owns the daily schedule: rooms, coverage, sick calls, and late changes. Both live in spreadsheets. Both eat somebody’s evenings.
Once the month is published, the complaints begin. Weekends feel uneven. Holidays feel worse. Nobody can show the math, so the conversation runs on memory and grievance.
The scheduling software you have looked at asks you to reduce the real rules to checkboxes. It still needs a human babysitter, and tweaks are more work than doing it yourself. You go back to the spreadsheet.
What we do
A scheduling partner, not another vendor.
We deliver your next schedule. You publish it to your group through a portal, and make edits when things change.
No rebuilding the spreadsheet. No software your group has to learn.
Proof
Trident Anesthesia has been using schedules we built for six months.
Nice Schedule started with Trident Anesthesia.
Before us, two physicians were spending six to twelve hours per cycle building call by hand and absorbing the complaints afterward.
Since November 2025, Trident has been publishing schedules from this process. The April 2026 schedule above is one of them.
The guarantee
Approve the first schedule before you pay.
First live schedule in three weeks. If it isn’t a workable replacement for your spreadsheet process, you owe nothing.
How it works
What the first three weeks look like.
Week one: We listen.
We sit down with the person who owns the schedule today, plus two or three people who know where the friction lives. Post-call rules. Golden weekends. Site mix. Pairing issues. The unwritten political ones. All of it.
Week two: Requests go live.
Your group gets one place, on a phone or desktop, to submit vacation, preferences, and exceptions. We import past schedules so fairness accounting begins from history, not from zero.
Week three: We deliver the first call schedule.
We generate the draft, walk you through weekend spread, holiday load, requests honored, and open conflicts, and revise until the numbers are right. Then you publish one source of truth.
Is this a fit?
We are careful about who we take on.
If your group is outside that window, we will say so on the call and save us both a meeting.
This is a fit if…
- You are an independent anesthesia group, usually 14 to 40 clinicians.
- One partner or scheduler owns call, and the job keeps getting harder to hand off.
- You have real constraints: post-call rules, site coverage, subspecialty work, not just a vacation calendar.
- You want the schedule built with you, not another login your group will ignore.
Probably not a fit if…
- You want to configure a tool yourself.
- You need a hospital-wide OR scheduling system.
- You are looking for free software.
- Your current process is working fine.
Next step
Twenty minutes on the phone.
We will ask about group size, number of sites, and how the schedule gets built today. Then we will tell you whether Nice Schedule is a fit and how fast we could start.
Pilots run $2,500 to $7,500. We take on two groups per month so the listening part is done properly.
Or email us directly: hello@niceschedule.com
Forward this page to the person who owns your schedule.