Me: With your new cancer center, there are now three on one-mile stretch of road that basically offer the same breast cancer services for patients. How can all three stay in business?
Glenna Henderson: “You realize that’s a politically charged question?”
Glenna was right. I asked her that question yesterday afternoon for a story that appeared in today’s Globe-News.
It was on Texas Oncology’s new Breast Center, a diagnostic imaging center for breast cancer screening and analysis. Glenna is the administrator at Texas Oncology.
Here’s why my question was politically charged:
Many of the physicians who make up Texas Oncology worked at Harrington Cancer Center before Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System bought it out. That move came in 1996, but still there is bad blood over the move.
Many doctors didn’t want to work for the hospital and didn’t agree with how it would handle many administrative decisions on treatment options.
So some oncologists formed their own practice in Texas Oncology. Their new Breast Center now competes directly with BSA’s Comprehensive Breast Center, which was run by Dr. John “Chip” Coscia for nearly four years. Coscia now runs Texas Oncology’s breast cancer unit.
Do you see what I’m getting at?
It’s been more than four years since talks began for BSA to take over Harrington, yet feelings are still strong.
Numerous doctors in Amarillo have strong opinions about the heavy-handed way in which BSA operates.
This Harrington buyout has been one case in which doctors not been afraid to speak out against BSA.
In a town in which political correctness reigns supreme, such open discussion is refreshing.
Glenna Henderson: “You realize that’s a politically charged question?”
Glenna was right. I asked her that question yesterday afternoon for a story that appeared in today’s Globe-News.
It was on Texas Oncology’s new Breast Center, a diagnostic imaging center for breast cancer screening and analysis. Glenna is the administrator at Texas Oncology.
Here’s why my question was politically charged:
Many of the physicians who make up Texas Oncology worked at Harrington Cancer Center before Baptist St. Anthony’s Health System bought it out. That move came in 1996, but still there is bad blood over the move.
Many doctors didn’t want to work for the hospital and didn’t agree with how it would handle many administrative decisions on treatment options.
So some oncologists formed their own practice in Texas Oncology. Their new Breast Center now competes directly with BSA’s Comprehensive Breast Center, which was run by Dr. John “Chip” Coscia for nearly four years. Coscia now runs Texas Oncology’s breast cancer unit.
Do you see what I’m getting at?
It’s been more than four years since talks began for BSA to take over Harrington, yet feelings are still strong.
Numerous doctors in Amarillo have strong opinions about the heavy-handed way in which BSA operates.
This Harrington buyout has been one case in which doctors not been afraid to speak out against BSA.
In a town in which political correctness reigns supreme, such open discussion is refreshing.
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