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Study internal, external factors in practice merger decisions
In December 2008, Trinity Medical Associates, a Knoxville, TN–based family physician practice, bucked a growing trend in American healthcare and politely declined a merger offer extended by colleagues and friends at the much larger Summit Medical Group.
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