Gainesville Direct Primary Care Physicians

Gainesville Direct Primary Care Physicians is the first physician owned and operated Direct Primary Care Practice in North central Florida. It was founded by family physicians, Dr. Cotter and Dr. Tyndall-Smith, who were disillusioned with "industry" primary care practices where numbers, driven by the insurance industry, seem more important than patients. Their passion led them to start a medical practice with the core mission of returning the patient experience to one where the doctor-patient relationship is the focus. The founders’ vision is for a practice where the physicians are accessible at a reasonable transparent price and are able to spend meaningful time with patients to listen to their concerns and to enable the doctor to deliver high-quality personalized medical care to each patient.

All of the physicians at Gainesville Direct Primary Care Physicians are board-certified in family medicine. Combined they have over 75 years of clinical practice experience, including teaching and mentoring young doctors. Each doctor’s personal life experiences as parents to young children, caregivers to aging parents, volunteers in the community and involvement in health ministry have further enhanced their ability to connect with patients of all ages and backgrounds.