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Excellent Private Practice Opportunity
For a Qualified Psychiatrist
(Texas Highland Lakes Area)

April, 2012

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

Marble Falls and Horseshoe Bay, on adjoining Lake Marble Falls and Lake LBJ, 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 Clinic is already attracting new clinicians. There are two other small hospitals nearby, in Burnet and Llano.  Bluebonnet Trails MHMR Center operates a State-funded mental health satellite office in Burnet (about 25 miles away).

The Horseshoe Bay-Marble Falls area is arguably the most sophisticated small-town environment in Texas. Nearby Burnet, Llano, and Kingsland are traditional hill country and Highland Lakes 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 are private schools as well. The topography is generally rolling hills with granite and limestone outcroppings and abundant trees, and many miles of recreational and residential lakefront. Area recreation includes excellent golf (public and private), good tennis, several spas, hiking and cycling, hunting, and lots of fishing, boating, and swimming in and on our several lakes, rivers, and streams. There are strong, active art and music communities, 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 in Austin. Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is 1-1/2 hours away by car, San Antonio and its airport about 1-1/2 hours, and the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex about 3-1/2 hours. There are three academic medical centers and three postgraduate residency programs (all including psychiatry) within two hours' drive (in Austin, San Antonio, and Temple).

Although a full-time psychiatrist would be ideal, I'm happy to help a qualified person establish a part-time presence in the area.

This is not an offer to join my own practice, and my practice will not compete with that of the new psychiatrist. I do clinical consultation, clinical teaching & supervision, and forensic work, referring patient care to local clinicians -- that's one of the reasons we need you. 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 to enjoy a fine private practice environment in a relaxed, multispecialty setting while addressing our area needs for psychiatric care. An unrestricted Texas medical license is required. Interested clinicians, 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.