Dr. Eric Colson Potter, MD

Suffering, Frustration & Crisis: A Physician's Motivation

Dr. Potter has experienced both sides of health care, not only walking through health crises with adults and children in various settings, but also walking through the patient side of health care with several close family members. This has provided ample opportunity to study the needs of those suffering from health problems in our fallen world, and has given Dr. Potter a desire to comfort and provide relief as God allows, through scriptural, natural and scientific means.

Seeing the anxiety and frustration of patients in today's health system crisis motivated Dr. Potter to develop a means of providing affordable care that can work to allay these fears through a covenantal relationship of trust between physician and patient in a direct pay model.
Dr. Potter in Person

Besides serving as a physician, Dr. Potter is married to an amazing wife and has five wonderful children. Their family has been shaped by the many …providential occurrences in their lives, including the beauty of adoption.

Dr. Potter also enjoys running, reading, Bible classes, and time with his family when he is not practicing medicine.


Basic C.V.
Education

Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Internship and Residency: University of Tennessee at Memphis Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Certifications

Board certified: Internal Medicine (recertified 2013)

Board eligible: Pediatrics (lapsed 2010; intend to re-certify in 2015)
Practice History

Short-term medical missions, domestic and abroad
Volunteer involvement with low-income clinics
Emergency room coverage (adult and pediatric)
Inner City Christian Primary Care (Chicago; adult and pediatric)
Private practice (Nashville) caring for adults and children
Inpatient Specialist (St Thomas in Nashville, five years)
Inpatient Specialist Director (Kentucky)
Medical ministry position while working on recent Master's degree

Dr. Potter has 11 years of medical practice since completion of residency.
Areas of Expertise

MTHFR, Epigenetics
Spiritual care of patients
Organizing health education (printed and group)
Master's level seminary education (underway)
Organizational leadership (various roles, interacting with pharmacy, informatics, and patients)
Physician mentorship
Biblically-based medical business models
Electronic medical records
Medical Spanish
Parental rights (education, health, including testimony before state legislature)

Continuing Medical Education

Audio Digest
Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine
American Academy of Pediatrics
Board Review
Internal Medicine Board Review 2013
Institute of Functional Medicine
Advanced Practice Module: Cardiometabolic
Ben Lynch, Seeking Health Institute
MTHFR Course 1
MTHFR Course 2
MTHFR Pregnancy
Methylation and Bio-individualized Medicine
January 2015 Epigenetic Course

Seminary Papers

Paedia (Explaining Ephesians 6:4-6 regarding raising children for God's glory)
Romans 13
Suffering and the Providence of God
Image of God in Man
Food Theology


Whether working in an inner city clinic, an overseas outreach clinic, or suburban America, Dr. Potter has seen the suffering common to all mankind. We are all looking for someone to guide us through the process of restoration from our physical brokenness. We are all mortals. Dr. Potter understands that, and hopes you will give him the opportunity to care for you in your times of suffering, as a whole person—body, mind, heart, and spirit.