KevinMD January 19, 2026
Max Goodman, MD

As a family medicine resident physician who practices primary care, it is my responsibility to be the first doctor a patient, their family, and their community may visit for any undifferentiated issue. No other field of medicine increases the life expectancy and the quality of life in a community as much as primary care, which provides more meaning to me than can be qualified. My objective is for people to healthily be able to reach their life goals, but also to prevent emergencies and hospital visits. Like a firefighter, I stop smolders from becoming forest fires. It should not come as any surprise that I am always looking for fires, and believe me, there wafts something acrid in the air.

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