i wrote an oblique blog entry yesterday on an albuquerque web site (which i have since removed) trying to get feedback from a cross-section of new mexicans on the sisyphean task of getting rich out of his contract and into a better practice. i took the post down because it was obvious there was no love for physicians in this particular forum and i thought i'd stem the rising tide of anger towards me for bitching about our situation. anyway, the end result seems to be that a) people are not terribly worried about physicians being forced out of practice; b) the only thing people hate more than academic medicine is corporate medicine, and c) no one really gives a shit because they've never been either in medicine or ill enough to need a super-subspecialist (i love that term).
the following are the first sentences (only) of each paragraph in my now-deleted tome:
how can albuquerque keep its doctors?
i love albuquerque...
my husband came here to practice a super-subspecialty, meaning that he is the only guy in the state doing his type of work...
and it didn't have to be this way--hiring a partner would have solved many of these problems...
so now we find ourselves in the unenviable position of trying to change from one type of practice to another....
of course he could leave and practice in texas or any other state tomorrow (like a close friend of ours who was also a super-subspecialist and was ultimately forced to leave the state for trying to change practices)...
why is there no legislation to address this attrition of physicians from a state that so desperately needs them--is it really in the public's best interest to lose a sole practitioner of an area of medicine because of a contract clause...
so, now what do we do--say screw this and have him practice anyway or hide out for a year to prevent litigation?
the end.
and i really would love to know what y'all think we should do...doesn't mean we're gonna do it, tho...
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