Readers of Tribune Article Describing Clinic Letter to Patient As Confusing Are Actually Wondering if Newspaper Being Influenced by Local Hospital

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Local doctor recruited and supported by the Great Falls Clinic, receives an inexpensive practice buy-in, immediately busy practice through referrals from other clinic doctors and outstanding assistance from clinic nursing, employees, and administration, while working in a state of the art facility, developing friendships with hundreds of staff and colleagues, agrees with and signs his name to a legal document, and benefits from all provisions thereof, is made partner within a year and becomes an owner in a multimillion dollar organization including primary building, new twenty million dollar specialty building, satellite clinics, surgical center, and community hospital although not actually making significant financial contribution yet toward these facilities prior to becoming an owner, after many years of getting referrals and support from his friends and colleagues, decides to leave the clinic because he has built up his practice sufficiently and feels he can make more money working with the hospital who will possibly pay portions of his overhead and lots of money to the Tribune to advertise for him and write inflammatory poorly written articles about the clinic like the one describing a patient whose father complained because he received a professional letter from the clinic informing him the doctor was leaving the clinic which the father already knew but that the letter did not specifically say the doctor would still be practicing in Great Falls although the father knew this too and the letter did not give the address or MapQuest directions to the doctor's new office although the father knew this as well because the doctor is actually still practicing at the clinic which has generously allowed him to continue to work there despite his competitive move described above and who undoubtedly has already directly told the father he was leaving to pursue greater financial gain now that he has such an established practice and is loved by so many but regardless does not want to give up $150,000 which was not his anyway because of the agreement he signed that was written by expert health specialty lawyers who are experienced and know how to write contracts such as no-compete agreements which are legal, reasonable, and would withstand scrutiny but despite this the doctor will still try to contest saying “That’s not fair” and “My patients deserve to see me” even though his patients can still see him anywhere, anytime as that has nothing to do with the agreement except he may have slightly less money in his pocket when he is seeing them for awhile because of the agreement he voluntarily signed although Benefis will likely make up for most of this in some sort of payment or "directorship" anyway making all of this rather moot. More on page 5.