Dr. Melissa Martin
Description
Health-focused concierge care is now available in Laredo! At Axis Direct Care, we provide primary care and lifestyle medicine services, billed on a monthly membership basis. No insurance, no waiting, no barriers to communicating with your doctor. Dr. Melissa Martin is here to partner with you to help achieve your health goals. Are you ready?
I began my Family Medicine career by staying on as faculty at the Christus Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency. I love teaching and I really enjoy the broad spectrum that Family Medicine has to offer. After 2 years, I learned that Laredo was starting its own Family Medicine residency program and I felt a calling to come back to my hometown to help train physicians in our own community. I served as Associate Program Director and then Program Director for 5 years at the Laredo Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program, growing the program, supervising residents, and helping care for patients at Gateway Community Health Center. In 2023, I made the decision to step away from my academic role and focus more on patient care in a private practice setting. Throughout that year, I tried to find better ways to care for and connect with my patients that didn’t just involve ordering labs, changing medications, repeating this cycle, and finding a hard time squeezing in patients when they were sick or needed to be seen. In December 2023, I received my board certification in Lifestyle Medicine and in early 2024 I took the step towards opening Axis Direct Care!