Practice Management BY JOEY BERLIN
The four physicians of Austin Internal Medicine Associates will retire after the practice closes its doors on Sept. 4. Ace Alsup, MD, left, founded the practice in 1975. Isabel Hoverman, MD; R. Scott Ream, MD; and Frank Robinson, MD, right, joined the practice later.
Farewell to 40 years of service
TECHNOLOGICAL BURDENS, REGULATIONS SPUR THE END FOR VENERABLE AUSTIN INTERNAL MEDICINE ASSOCIATES
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our decades ago, when the practice that later adopted the name Austin Internal Medicine Associates (AIMA) first opened its doors, medicine was a different profession.
Cut to 2015, and in the eyes of many physicians, being a doctor is less about patient care and more about navigating an avalanche of health records, govern-
PHOTO BY JIM LINCOLN
ment technological requirements, and administrative red tape. Physicians who view those realities
as a temptation to hang up the white coat for good might admire the four doctors who make up AIMA — be- cause that is what they are doing. AIMA will close its doors on Sept.
4, ending 40 years of service and more than 20 years together for its inter- nists — Ace Alsup, MD; Isabel Hov- erman, MD; R. Scott Ream, MD; and Frank Robinson, MD. Appropriately enough, AIMA set
its closing date to avoid anticipated technical difficulties — specifically,
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