Maple Tree Healing is Thriving in Eugene, Oregon

Dr. Priya Carden, owner and physician of Maple Tree Healing, earned her MD from Northwestern University Medical School in 2002 and then completed her residency in Internal Medicine. For the first two years of her career, she practiced both as a primary care physician and as an academic hospitalist in Madison, WI. In 2007, she moved to Eugene, Oregon and was a hospitalist at PaceHealth. She then worked at some traditional primary clinics, but something was missing. After all of these experiences, she realized that she need to declare independence from Big Box Medicine and so she opened her own DPC practice.

The physician-patient relationship is sacred and I intend to honor this by revolutionizing the way medicine is practiced. I have taken the “system” out of primary health care and brought the practice of medicine back to “the way it used to be.” Services of the past are once again offered: direct physician access via telephone and email, same day appointments, house calls when appropriate, coordination with other providers regarding your care, no waiting, no rushing. I intend to build a medical community with your health as the primary focus. This is community supported health care where cultural, language and social barriers are brought down so that we can learn from and support each other during times of good health and illness. 

Dr. Carden is of South Indian (Malayalee) heritage born to immigrant parents in Chicago, IL. Stay away from medicine,” her physician -father advised her repeatedly. “Medicine is just not what it used to be.”  Now that she has her own DPC practice, It is quite evident that the ideal medical clinic not only still exists, but thrives with happy doctors and equally happy patients. A place where all people can heal each other. Back to “the way it used to be.”

When she is not doctoring, she spends much of her time with her husband and three children ages 16,13 and 11. She enjoys ceramics, dancing Bharatanatyam (classical South Indian dance), hiking, sewing, and cooking. She believes that a healthy diet should be well balanced, and rich in fresh food and probiotics and therefore she has taken time to include gardening, brewing and fermenting foods into her home kitchen routine.