OK, here is the practice site as it is now – “Before” – and the signage (we’re replacing Curves but our sign isn’t up yet):
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And here’s what’s going on inside:
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Hi everyone. I’m working on the website. I changed over to Wordpress – it’s not quite as pretty as the last version, which was built on Typepad – but I can add lots more useful features.
For example, you can now subscribe to receive new posts by email. It’s spam-protected. And it’s search engine optimized (whoa)!
We signed the lease and the construction contract this week and renovation is underway. I should be posting some photos soon. I think we will be able to open in August.
I can’t believe that this practice is going to be a reality. My thanks to you all, from the bottom of my heart, for your support.
Oi. Has it really been more than a month since I posted here? We’ve been amazingly busy.
The lease at the Lenox Shops fell through. Just could not come to terms with the developer there. Luckily, I found another space, just up the road. It’s at the corner of Route 7 and Holmes Road, next door to Berskhire Lighting.
Ross Kunzmann, the landlord there, is a very nice guy and very straighforward. I think, I hope, we will work out a long term lease that allows me to stay there for – well, twenty years or so. I really do not want to move once I’m settled in there.
We have a wonderful architect, Dana Bixby. The plans are nearly done and we put them out to bid on Monday (gulp).
I’m also in the final phases of choosing an electronic medical record vendor. I think it will be a completely paperless office. Will write more about this later, but here are just a couple of neat features:
I’m going to work a bit on this web site too. I like fooling around with web sites but I might hire a professional designer for this one.
I’m on call today, so I have to go. I promise to keep this site better updated though, for anyone who is following my progress here.
Well, I now know all about triple net and commercial gross leases. Was I out the day they covered that in medical school?
Rebecca and I looked at a space on route 7 near Holmes Road, and then went back to the developer at the Lenox Shops to negotiate the lease he’d offered. He was pretty accomodating. It looks like we’ll be paying $16-18 per square foot for commercial space anywhere in Lenox. The Lenox Shops is closer to my house, which is nice; and I think we could get the build-out done sooner there. The lawyers have the lease now, so we’ll see what happens.
In other words: I still don’t have an office. But we’re making progress.
John Burnham asked me if I would stay through July at Dalton Medical. I’m thinking about it. I had started scheduling patients for July but I’m not sure the new office will be ready by then – so, if worse came to worse, I could see them in Dalton. And I’d have an extra month of salary and health coverage, before taking the plunge.
Maybe part-time in Dalton in July.
So many people have helped us along the way. Good advice from Larry at Arcadian Shop, Dave Nadig, Kathy Yurfest (big time) and of course Richard Simons. Even one of my patients – ill, bedbound, and awaiting a major surgery – volunteered to help when she recovers. I practically cried.
Welcome! This is the brand new website for a brand new medical practice.As I write this, I’m sitting in the Arcadian Shop Cafe on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Rebecca, bless her, took the kids to the supermarket so I could have a little time to set up this site.
Right now, Lenox Internal Medicine doesn’t have a blood pressure cuff, an examining table, a tongue depressor, or an office to put them in. But we have a website. And a dream.
Ever since we moved here, Rebecca and I have wanted to open a doctor’s office here in Lenox, where we live. Now, we have the opportunity.
I’ll use this site to keep everyone posted on our progress, decisions about the practice, tasks completed, etc. And, maybe even more important, I hope to get feedback from my patients and from the community. It’s your practice as much as it is mine.
Here’s the one goal I can state now, and it won’t change for as long as I’m in practice. I want to take great care of anyone who gives me the tremendous gift of their trust, in allowing me to be their doctor. I will do my very best to keep you healthy, I will be there for you when you are sick – by phone, by appointment or without an appointment, in the hospital, even visiting you at home if you can’t travel. I will cure you when I can, comfort when I can’t cure, answer your questions, and help you to heal in every way that I know.
We open in July 2006. With the blessing, we’ll soon have office space and a phone number, and we’ll start taking appointments.
Meanwhile, please use the comments space below to let me know what you think, make suggestions, or give me feedback.
Be well.