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Excellent Private Practice Opportunity -- Texas Highland Lakes

June, 2008

The Texas Highland Lakes area is a great place to live and practice medicine, but we need a general or child psychiatrist!

Marble Falls and Horseshoe Bay, on Lake Marble Falls and Lake LBJ, respectively, have a thriving medical community with primary care and full- and part-time specialists. We're at the center of a population base of several hundred thousand people, many well-insured, which includes the high-end Horseshoe Bay resort community and other middle-to-upper-class developments. A new, open-staff medical center being built here by Scott & White (a large multispecialty complex and the primary teaching hospital of Texas A&M College of Medicine) is already attracting new clinicians. There are two nearby small hospitals, in Burnet and Llano.  Bluebonnet Trails MHMR Center operates a State-funded mental health satellite office in Burnet. 

The Horseshoe Bay-Marble Falls area is arguably the most sophisticated small-town environment in the state. Nearby Burnet, Llano, and Kingsland are traditional hill country Texas towns, pleasant and financially solid.  In Horseshoe Bay, a nationally-known resort and residential community, home prices range from the mid-100s to several million dollars; Marble Falls prices are lower. The Marble Falls and Llano schools (which serve much of Horseshoe Bay) are very good, and there is a church-affiliated private academy in Marble Falls as well. The topography is generally rolling hills with granite and limestone outcroppings and abundant trees. Area recreation includes excellent golf (public and private), good tennis, several spas, hiking and cycling, hunting, and lots of swimming, fishing and boating in and on our several lakes, rivers, and streams.  There's a strong, active art and music community, with live theatre, galleries, and cultural events (long-hair and Texas traditional). Shopping is quite good, as are our community, resort, and luxury restaurants and clubs. High-end shopping (and more restaurants) are an hour away, on the northwest side of Austin. Austin-Bergstrom Airport is 1-1/2 hours away, San Antonio about 1-1/2 hours, and the DFW metroplex about 3-1/2 hours.

This is not an offer to join my own practice, nor would my practice compete with that of the new psychiatrist (I do clinical consultation, clinical teaching & supervision, and forensic work, not continuing clinical care), but I'm very happy to provide information, give you my opinions about the area, and assist a new psychiatrist in getting started. this is not a salaried position. It is an opportunity for a good psychiatrist (or two) to address our communities' needs for psychiatric care and enjoy a fine private practice environment in a relaxed, multispecialty setting. An unrestricted Texas medical license is required. Interested clinicians and senior residents and fellows are encouraged to contact me for more information at (830) 596-0062, or email reidw@reidpsychiatry.com.

Thanks for considering us!

William H. Reid, M.D., M.P.H.