David Loxterkamp | The Good Doctor Portraits

David Loxterkamp’s work as a family physician was the subject of a 1998 Life Magazine photoessay, “What makes a good doctor?” , an NBC Nightline documentary in 2000, and the 2015 PBS documentary “Rx: The Quiet Revolution” by award-winning film-maker David Grubin.David Loxterkamp, M.D. is a family physician who has made his home in Belfast, Maine for the last 41 years, along with his wife, Lindsay. They have two children, Clare and John, who live nearby. His stories and essays have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the British Medical Journal, and the Annals of Family Medicine. He has authored A Measure of My Days: The Journal of a Country Doctor (University of New England Press, 1997) and What Matters in Medicine: Lessons from a Life in Primary Care (University of Michigan Press, 2013), and has contributed to several anthologies, including including A Life in Medicine, edited by Robert Coles and Randy Testa (The New Press, 2002) and The Country Doctor Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Reader, edited by Therese Zink (Kent State University Press, 2010).David grew up in rural Iowa, attended Creighton University and The University of Iowa College of Medicine, completed his family medicine residency in York, PA ((1982), earned an MA in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago (1984) and a fellowship in Family Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (1994). He is is co-founder of Seaport Community Health Center and its Recovery Program. interests include running, choral music, local history, architecture, and potato farming.