re: How enforceable are non-compete clauses in LA?

Non-competes are unethical for lawyers, and they ought to be (but aren't) for doctors.

I had a case where there were two doctors in town who could perform a particular type of pediatric surgery. They had a parting of the ways, the doctor one sues to keep doctor two from practicing in the same town. The Court granted an injunction against doctor two. So, from that point, there was no one who could perform this surgical procedure when doctor one was unavailable.