Dr. Brent Allain retiring from practice after 40 years

Dr. Brent W. Allain has practiced medicine in Franklin for 40 years, and at the end of this year, he is retiring from public life.
“We (Allain and Dr.’s Horton and McCormick) came back to Franklin in August of 1979, and we didn’t have an office at the time. So, we practiced at the hospital (Franklin Foundation Hospital) where the ICU is now, at the old hospital. We stayed there about eight months until we built this office.”
Allain said that for the first 19-and-a-half years of the three doctors’ practice, they did obstetrics.
“So,” he said, “we delivered babies all the way from St. Mary Parish to St. Martin Parish to Iberia Parish. But, Terrebone Parish, they came to Franklin, and we had 350 deliveries-a-year for 10 to 15 years. That’s a lot of babies that often grew into adults and became patients of our practice.”
He exhibited his account by pointing to one of the nurses on his staff, who he delivered.
He said that what he will miss most will be the patients he sees.
“I’ve had a nice run as a physician,” he said. “The patients have been great. The community has been great.”
As for Allain’s practice, his replacement will be Dr. Claude Meeks, from Abbeville.
Meeks has bought Allain’s practice, and according to Allain, he is well-liked and is expected to do well.
Allain said he has not ruled out participating in missionary work in Nicaragua sometime in the next year, as his license is still good for that amount of time.
He said lastly, that he will miss working in family medicine, as he has found it most rewarding.