General Surgeon

Texas County Memorial Hospital is a not-for-profit acute care facility located in Houston, MO, the heart of Texas County. TCMH serves more than 45,000 area residents throughout Texas, Wright, and neighboring counties in south-central Missouri.

TCMH is a 66-bed facility offering complete surgical, obstetrical, emergency, and physical therapy services. In 2013, TCMH completed a 59,000-square-foot expansion project that included a new 15-bed emergency department, medical-surgical floor, radiology department, and registration department.

In 2024, a 7,000-square-foot surgery expansion doubled the size of two operating rooms, including an outpatient surgery room and seven private pre/post-operative surgical rooms.

TCMH has a four-bed ICU, and an obstetrical unit complete with three LDRP rooms and two postpartum rooms. EMR, PACS, centralized fetal monitoring, in-house MRI, CT, 3D digital mammography, and sleep lab are just a few of the technological advantages we offer our medical staff and patients.

Our medical staff at TCMH includes physicians specializing in emergency medicine, internal medicine, family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery, pulmonology, and pain management. TCMH also employs advanced practitioners who work with our physicians to provide patient care. Two CRNAs provide pain management for our surgery department and obstetrics.

TCMH has four rural health clinics. They are in Houston, Licking, Cabool, and Mountain Grove.

Why Choose US?

At TCMH, we value our physicians. We are progressive in our strategic goals and collaborate with our providers to ensure they are key stakeholders in our organization’s decision-making. We compensate our physicians very well through a bottom-line-based compensation plan offering a lucrative bonus structure. Our physicians are among the top earners in their field. Performing hospital procedures is an optional source of additional compensation.

The General Surgeon has a Degree in Medicine, Certification through the American Board or Medical Specialties, and a current Missouri medical license. General surgeons examine patients and make diagnoses to determine the need for surgery, review patient medical history and plan the best procedure for treatment, evaluate and advise patients on the risk involved with having surgery, prescribe preoperative and postoperative treatment and procedures, and ensure sterility in the OR and all equipment and instruments, oversee all treatment prior to and post-surgery and identify associated risks, maintain the highest regard for patient dignity, and coordinate follow-up meetings with patients and monitor health conditions after surgery or treatment. General surgeons perform operations to treat or prevent diseases, repair damage caused by injuries, correct deformities, and improve the functions of the human body, following established surgical techniques during surgery. These medical doctors remove gallbladders and appendixes and do colonoscopies and thyroidectomies.

Education: Graduation from an accredited Medical School and 5 years of residency training in General Surgery.

Experience / Skills: Negotiable.

Licensure, Registration, Certification: Current medical licensure, in good standing, in the State of Missouri. Approved credentialing through the Medical Executive Committee at Texas County Memorial Hospital.

Mental / Physical Requirements: (may be met with or without reasonable accommodations): Considerable mental concentration required. Excellent decision–making skills, emotionally resilient with the ability to communicate effectively and the physical stamina to cope with the demands of performing surgery. Good organizational skills and ability to lead and manage a team effectively while working under pressure. High degree in manual dexterity, good hand-eye coordination, and excellent visuospatial awareness. Standing, walking, sitting, lifting, turning carrying, pushing, pulling, stooping, crouching, twisting, and reaching are required. Must be able to lift 20 lbs. from the floor and from overhead, 40 lbs. from waist height, and be able to handle, move or transfer articles of 100 lbs. regularly and over 100 lbs. periodically; in concert with another employee (s)/person(s) and/or lifting device; exercise good body mechanics in the execution of essential duties, including appropriate back and neck posture.

Working Conditions: Frequent exposure to communicable disease via blood and body fluids. Frequent exposure to infectious diseases. Exposure to hostile persons, at times. Works with sharps and other potentially bio-hazardous material.

Age-Specific Competencies: Persons generally grow and develop in stages that are related to their age. Age-specific competence means that the employee is aware of the physical, psychosocial, and/or learning needs of patients of different ages. Employees consider these needs when planning and providing care for the patient or when interacting with the patient or family.

Human development can be divided into eight stages. In each stage, the individual has a primary task to accomplish or master. Each task is important throughout the life span but is most critical at a particular stage.

Infant (0-1 year): The infant must learn to trust that his/her needs will be met.

Toddler (1-3 years): The toddler must learn to develop a sense of himself as an independent person and gain self-confidence and self-control.

Pre-school child (3-6 years): The pre-school child must develop a sense of initiating (being able to explore the world and start projects).

School-age child (6-12 years): The school-age child must develop a sense of his/her own self-worth through accomplishments and interaction with others.

Adolescent (13-20 years): the adolescent must develop his/her own identity.

Young adult (21-43 years): The young adult must develop close relationships.

Middle adult (44-65 years): The middle adult must develop a sense of community and assume responsibility for others.

Older adult (65 years and older): The older adult must come to understand the meaning of his/her life in terms of what has been accomplished.