Doug Briggs, MD
Family doctor.

Whole-person care, in the context of family and community.

Dr. Briggs earned his medical degree at the University of North Carolina in 1987, then trained in family medicine in Dallas, where he served as chief resident and practiced for five years. Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary helped shape a calling to serve as a physician overseas.

In 1995 he moved with his family to southwest China. For more than twenty years he cared for patients of every age from underserved villages, ran a walk-in clinic, made home visits, trained rural doctors and worked at a school for teens and adults with disabilities, while working to end the stigma faced by the poor, sick and disabled in the Chinese countryside.

He returned to Raleigh in 2018 to help start NeighborHealth Center, a faith-based federally qualified health center, serving as its chief medical officer and as a staff physician, and teaching medical, PA and nurse practitioner students along the way.

There is a universal need for physicians who have a longstanding commitment to treating patients as individuals within the context of their families and communities, preserving personal dignity and autonomy.Dr. Doug Briggs

Direct primary care gives him what decades of practice taught him matters most: time. Time for unhurried visits, for answering the phone himself, and for knowing three generations of a family by name.