Lakewood Primary Care and Wellness is a family medicine practice at 8210 Walnut Hill Lane, at US 75 on the Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas campus. Dr. Rajan Kohli is board certified in Family Medicine and has practiced for more than twenty years. He is currently on staff at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas and previously served as Chief of Medicine at White Rock Medical Center.
If you are looking for a family doctor, a primary care doctor, a PCP, a family practice or general practice physician, or a GP in North Dallas, those all describe the same role — and it is the role this practice is built around. We are accepting new patients.
What a family medicine physician does
Family medicine — also called family practice — is the specialty of continuing, comprehensive care. A family physician is trained to be your first point of contact for almost any concern, to manage long-term conditions over years rather than visits, and to coordinate specialist care when you need it. In practice that means we:
- Evaluate new symptoms and decide what needs investigation
- Diagnose and treat acute illness and injury
- Monitor chronic conditions — blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, thyroid, heart and lung disease — with scheduled follow-up and lab review
- Perform annual physicals, Medicare Annual Wellness Visits, well woman exams and Pap smears
- Handle preventive screening, immunizations and referrals
- Coordinate hospital, rehabilitation and nursing-home care when it is needed
Family medicine or internal medicine — which doctor do you need?
Patients searching for an internist or the best internal medicine doctor in Dallas are usually looking for one thing: a physician who can manage complicated adult medical problems well. It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that two different specialties do that job.
Internal medicine physicians (internists) complete a residency devoted entirely to adult medicine. They do not treat children. Many go on to subspecialize in cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology and similar fields.
Family medicine physicians complete a residency covering adult medicine alongside pediatrics, women's health, and office procedures. The adult chronic disease training overlaps substantially with internal medicine; the difference is that family medicine adds the rest of the family and the rest of the lifespan.
For an adult with high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, COPD or thyroid disease, either specialty is an appropriate choice. Both are primary care. What should decide it is the individual physician's experience with your particular problems, whether they know the hospitals you might be admitted to, and whether you can actually get an appointment.
Where family medicine has a clear advantage is continuity across a household — one practice that knows you, your spouse and your parents, and can see the pattern that runs through a family history. Where an internist may be the better fit is a single highly complex organ-system problem already under subspecialty management.
To be precise about credentials: Dr. Kohli is board certified in Family Medicine, not Internal Medicine. He is also fellowship trained in Functional, Integrative and Regenerative Medicine through A4M. We tell you that plainly because a physician's certification is something you are entitled to verify.
Conditions we manage
The core of this practice is long-term management of adult chronic disease, much of it for seniors and other Medicare patients over 65. Conditions we evaluate, diagnose, treat and monitor include high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and prediabetes, high cholesterol, thyroid disorders, COPD and asthma, arthritis, obesity, osteoporosis, mood and sleep disorders, and the routine preventive care that surrounds all of them.
Alongside conventional primary care we offer hormone evaluation and treatment for men and women, medically supervised weight loss, sexual health care, and a functional and integrative approach for patients who want their care to consider contributing medical, behavioral and environmental factors rather than symptoms alone.
Medicare and insurance
We accept Medicare and most major commercial plans, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, UMR and Baylor Scott & White Health Plan. Medicare Annual Wellness Visits and Chronic Care Management are covered benefits, and we actively use both.
Where we are, and who we see
The practice sits at Walnut Hill Lane and US 75, minutes from University Park, Highland Park and Preston Hollow, and easily reached from North Dallas, Uptown, Richardson, the M Streets, Lake Highlands, Lakewood and the wider Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Despite the practice name, we are in North Dallas — not East Dallas.
