Barry E. Brenner MD PhD

Founder, Andover Internal Medicine PLLC

Board-Certified in Internal Medicine & Emergency Medicine

Barry E. Brenner MD PhD created Andover Internal Medicine to bring expert, compassionate, and timely care to patients who want a true personal relationship with their physician. He believes medical care should be unhurried, direct, and centered on the patient — not on insurance companies.

This practice is not the typical “DPC clinic” people may have encountered elsewhere.

It is built around advanced same-day diagnostics, a full in-office laboratory, and an in-office pharmacy. Patients receive immediate evaluations, rapid testing, and most medications on the spot — eliminating extra visits, pharmacy delays, unnecessary phone calls, and the endless deductibles and bills common in traditional care.

Dr. Brenner brings decades of experience from emergency departments, intensive care units, and academic medical centers. He has served as a residency program director, department chair, and national lecturer, with extensive expertise in both everyday primary care and complex diagnostic challenges.

His emergency medicine background — combined with laboratory medicine training — gives him a unique ability to rapidly identify and treat conditions that typically require multiple visits, referrals, or long waits. The rapid diagnostics he always wished for in the emergency department are now available in his office, along with an in-office pharmacy that allows patients to leave with the medications they need immediately.

At Andover Internal Medicine, he combines Compassionate ✦ Clever ✦ Care with advanced in-office diagnostics, same-day appointments, and direct access by text, email, or phone. His approach is simple and original: provide the kind of care every patient deserves — care that is timely, thoughtful, and genuinely personal.

PERSONAL STATEMENT BY BARRY BRENNER MD PhD

Throughout my years training residents, I always included a personal statement on my program’s website. It was honest, direct, and reflected my philosophy of mentorship and care. I asked many applicants whether they had read it — because it revealed who I was, what I valued, and how I practiced medicine.

Today, as I return to private practice, I offer you a new personal statement.

My practice is different by design. It brings together decades of experience in emergency medicine, internal medicine, advanced diagnostics, and teaching. But more importantly, it restores something medicine has lost: a genuine relationship between a patient and a physician who knows you, thinks deeply about your health, and remains available when you need guidance the most.

If you choose to join my practice, you will understand not just what I do, but how I care, why I think the way I do, and the commitment I make to every patient.

(And yes — I will probably ask if you read this.)

This practice begins with the timeless principles we outlined together:

Compassion. Cleverness. Care.

Compassion in listening and presence.

Cleverness in diagnostic thinking, insight, and advanced reasoning — especially when symptoms are confusing or the evidence is thin. Willingness to think out of the box.

Care in the fullest sense of the word: thoughtful, continuous, and unhurried.

For decades, physicians and patients built a model of trust that corporate medicine gradually dismantled.

Here, we rebuild it — simply, honestly, directly.

The Physician’s Promise — A Message to My Patients

From the very beginning of medicine, long before insurance companies, claim forms, or corporate metrics, there was a simple understanding: a patient and a physician, working together in trust.

That bond is as old as Hippocrates, as steady as Galen, as fearless as Jenner, as devoted as William Osler, and as brilliant as Harvey Cushing.

 These were the doctors who believed — truly believed — that healing meant listening, thinking, examining, and caring.

Their loyalty was to the patient, not to a corporation.

Their duty was to the truth of the illness, not to the demands of a quarterly report.

 But somewhere along the way, the system changed.

 Delays replaced access.

Denials replaced judgment.

Deterrents replaced compassion.

And non-physicians — guided by unrealistic metrics and profit incentives — took control of decisions that only doctors should make.

We all paid the price. Patients suffered. Doctors burned out. Healthcare bent under the weight of bureaucracy and broke in too many places. Not because physicians stopped caring — but because the system stopped supporting care.

Yet the spirit of Osler and Cushing never disappeared. It simply waited for a moment — a revolution — a return.

Direct Primary Care is that return. It is the restoration of medicine to its rightful owners:

the patient who seeks help and the physician who gives it.

No delays. No denials. No deterrents. No meaningless metrics. No non-physicians deciding what is “medically necessary.”

Just medicine — pure, honest, immediate, personal.

The kind Hippocrates would recognize.

The kind Jenner risked his life to advance.

The kind Osler dignified.

The kind Cushing perfected.

The kind you deserve. The kind we all deserve.

This is not just a new payment model.

It is a renewal of the physician’s promise —

that your doctor will truly know you, will see you when you’re sick and when you’re well, will advocate for you without pause or permission, and will practice with clarity, integrity, and compassion.

And as John F. Kennedy once said, “We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.’

In healthcare, that frontier is not defined by technology or regulation —but by a simple, timeless truth:

The best care happens when a physician is free to care.

So let us begin, together —patients and physicians —a new chapter in the old story of

A chapter where trust is restored, access is near immediate, diagnostics are in your doctor’s hands, and your health — not a corporation’s profit — determines every decision.

This is medicine reborn. This is the future we choose. This is the care we have always deserved.