Medscape January 19, 2026
As chief of ophthalmology at a Veterans Affairs (VA) medical center, Ankit Shah, MD, mentors trainees who might be thinking about going into private practice. But he has seen those opportunities dry up — first as private equity (PE) firms began buying ophthalmology practices, and, in the past year, publicly traded corporations have begun buying out the PE ventures.
“I’ve had a lot of colleagues and residents who have either been caught off guard by joining a practice that ultimately got bought out by private equity, or a lot of the places they’re interviewing at are already owned by private equity,” said Shah, who is chief of ophthalmology at the VA in Salem, Virginia, and on faculty at the University...
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