Current Physician
James W. Fox, M.D.
Ophthalmology Residency: University of Rochester School of Medicine, 198x-198x
Medical School: Duke University, Durham, NC, 1965-1969
College: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1961-1965
I am selling my solo, general practice of ophthalmology in Rochester, NY directly across from Rochester General Hospital, the second largest hospital in the area. I have a loyal group of patients from a wide age and geographic span. My objective is to pass on to a good ophthalmologist a practice one can live with and grow as you desire.
Rochester is rich with cultural institutions and outdoor activities. The Eastman School of Music makes all types of musical experiences unusually strong in Rochester. The Rochester International Jazz Festival rivals any national jazz festival. The George Eastman House Museum of Photography has a world renowned collection. The community is well educated and based on technology----think Kodak, Xerox, Bausch and Lomb, and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. The University of Rochester is a very strong, mid-sized research university. The U of R Medical Center/Srong Hospital is the largest employer in the area. Referral to sub specialists is easy and their quality is outstanding.
Education is valued in the Rochester area and is excellent at every level. My daughter attended a public school that is routinely rated the one of the best districts in the country and from there she went to Stanford University as undergrad. My son went to the same public schools and opted for a wonderful private high school for boys in our neighborhood. Both of them received superb elementary, middle school and high school educations. The primary and secondary schools – both public and private – in the neighboring towns of Pittsford, Brighton, Penfield, and others are exceptional. In Rochester, the School of the Arts is regarded as an exceptional resource.
In Rochester I cross country ski twenty minutes into the country in a large, beautiful, lake filled county park, Mendon Ponds. I row my scull out of the University of Rochester's crew docks on the Genesee River. Twenty minutes out of town it is forest and farmland; in forty minutes one can access a number of the fingerlakes.
On weekends I often drive to my camp in the Adirondacks where one enters another world of communities of long history and a strong sense of wilderness yet with many civilized spots, not the least of which is valley where in the mid 1800's most if not all of the Hudson River painters summered from the non-air conditioned Manhattan environs. The Adirondack Park is big by any standards. There are miles and miles of forever wild areas; there is access to lakes, streams, mountains. At any level you're interested in, from downtown Lake Placid's Olympic training facilities to private island state campsites in Saranac Lake to private Quaker tent/camps like "Backlog." Bottom line this is a very livable, affordable, place to live.
One last item: 2000 to 3000 square feet of housing in the city or in near suburbs is $ l90,000 to $300,000. Some may prefer "country" living with 20 to 30 minute commutes to working farms, fox-hunting farms, or just a piece of forest with wild life. A few of us live on lake frontage on the near-by fingerlakes.