Physician Practice Opportunities
We have exciting opportunities for board certified/board eligible physicians to join Covenant Medical Group. The ideal candidate should have experience and a Texas license.
There was a time when physicians and their patients worked together to determine what was best for the patient. Such participation has been ceded to the federal government.
Emergency Medicine - Lubbock, TX ENT - Plainview, TX
Family Medicine With Ob/Gyn - Littlefield, TX General Surgeon - Plainview, TX General Surgeon - Snyder, TX Internal Medicine - Plainview, TX Pediatric Neurologist - Lubbock, TX Cardiologist - Plainview, TX OB/GYN - Plainview, TX Oncologist - Plainview, TX Orthopedic Surgeon - Plainview, TX Pediatrician - Plainview, TX Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon - Lubbock, TX
Covenant Medical Group (CMG) is affiliated with Covenant Health System in Lubbock, Texas. CMG is a multi-specialty group with more than 150 physicians across West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefit package. CV should include salary requirements and can be forwarded to Covenant Medical Group, Attn: Kelly Fortney, 3420 22nd Place, Lubbock, TX 79410 or faxed to (806) 723-7476. For telephone inquiries, call (806) 725-7875. E-mail:
kfortney@covhs.org
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practitioners, and while this is still the case here, powerful and economically driven systems are gathering up and purchasing physician practices outright with the goal of gaining as much market share as possible. Their thinking is that the new accountable care organizations will provide a safe harbor from federal antitrust enforcement. Thus, the bigger the system, the more market dominance it would command. It is all about con- trol; and, unfortunately, practicing physi- cians and patients don’t have any! After a short period of predatory prac- tices, monopolistic dominance will result in higher prices, less service, and arbi- trary control over patient waiting times.
And sooner than later only a few big hospital systems and health insurance companies will remain. Voila! Then the federal government
will proclaim that there is no competi- tion in the health care marketplace and therefore the government must inter- vene and create a national health ser- vice modeled after Canada. Economist Milton Friedman’s comment about the inefficacy of government resonates to- day. If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, he said, in five years there would be a shortage of sand. And so it will be with health care. To move forward, physicians and patients must become part of the dia- logue. Decisions cannot simply be made by large health systems and the federal government. A more constructive discus- sion is needed, or patients (and we are all patients eventually) will incur long waiting lines, rationing of care, and higher taxes. n
Louis J. Goodman, PhD
Timothy B. Norbeck
Dr. Goodman is the executive vice president and chief executive officer of the Texas Medical Association and president of the Physicians Foundation. Mr. Norbeck is chief executive officer of the Physicians Foundation.
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