About Us

Happy Doc Family Medicine is a “micro practice” - a clinic with five doctors and minimal staff. The idea is to keep operations simple so we can spend more time with patients. The knowledge and skills that we worked so hard to acquire are not easily compressed into 10-minute visits, nor is responding to people’s innermost fears about their health.

If you come to our clinic you’ll see it doesn’t look like a typical health clinic. We are in a 100+ year old house in the Bush Park neighborhood. There is no receptionist or medical assistant. As patients are seen promptly at their appointment time, the waiting room is more for decoration than for waiting. Appointments are as long as they need to be for both the doctor and patient to feel satisfied, which is often 30-45 minutes. Soft, colorful gowns, made by Dr. Lara’s mom, add color to the visits. One of our favorite things about this clinic is that we generally have time to answer all of our patients’ questions at each visit.

Perhaps this sounds like an experience from the early 1900’s, but we assure you we opened in 2013. With 13 years behind us, we look forward to years to come as we expand access to this fun clubhouse of ours.