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Dear Doctor.
I don’t know your name, but I have a feeling I know something about you.
You’re likely a few years into your career. You’ve worked hard, trained hard, and become good at what you do. You may have spent time in an emergency department, urgent care center, orthopedic practice, family medicine clinic, or some combination of all three.
You enjoy taking care of patients, but you’re growing tired of everything that gets in the way of taking care of patients.
Maybe you’re tired of administrators who have never treated a patient telling you how to practice medicine. Maybe you’re tired of productivity quotas, endless meetings, and computer screens that seem more important than the people sitting in front of you.
Perhaps you’re tired of feeling like medicine has become a business first and a profession second.
If any of that sounds familiar, I’d like to talk with you. For over 30 years, I have practiced occupational / industrial medicine in Arizona. Every day we care for working men and women who have been injured on the job. Construction workers. Mechanics. Warehouse workers. Drivers. Tradesmen. Real people with real injuries who need an honest physician to help them get better.
My practice sees the whole gamut of musculoskeletal injuries, lacerations, eye injuries, fractures, strains, sprains, and all work-related injury conditions. We function much like a small emergency department without the chaos, politics, nights, weekends, or hospital call. The practice allows you to do what you love from 8-5 and have a life outside of the clinic.
You don’t need to know everything, but you should be comfortable evaluating injuries, repairing lacerations, reading X-rays, recognizing what can be treated in the clinic and what requires referral.
Spanish-speaking skills important as this is Arizona and a large part of the work force are native Spanish speakers.
Most importantly, I am looking for someone who enjoys people. Someone who can sit down with an injured worker, shake his hand, look him in the eye, and earn his trust…
This is not a corporate medicine position. This is not a hospital position. This IS an opportunity to practice medicine with autonomy, common sense and professional respect.
There is no overnight call, no hospital politics, no administrators looking over your shoulder.
Just good medicine, good patients, and the opportunity to build something meaningful.
If you ever thought about stepping away from corporate medicine and towards a more independent future, I would welcome a conversation. I’m not looking for an employee but for a colleague who still believes medicine is a calling and who might carry forward the relationships I’ve spent three decades building.
The Arizona lifestyle isn’t bad either.
Sincerely,
A Fellow MD
