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DOMUS PRIMARY CARE · MEET YOUR DOCTOR
Dr. Gagarkin came to New York as a child, an immigrant from Kazakhstan who celebrated his 12th birthday on the plane that brought his family here. He grew up in New York, trained in New York, and today cares for New Yorkers in English and in his native Russian.
He earned his MD with Distinction in Research from Albany Medical College and completed his Family Medicine residency at Phelps Memorial Hospital. He teaches as an Assistant Professor at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and continues to work as a hospitalist, caring for hospitalized patients alongside his house-call practice.
The practice is named Domus, the Latin word for home. That is the whole idea: unhurried, personal primary care, delivered to your home.
I used to think house calls were something movie doctors did. Then, in residency, I rotated with a physician who had built her entire practice around them, and we spent days driving from home to home, patient to patient.
I remember sitting in a patient’s living room, surrounded by photographs of her family, of her as a young woman. It felt like being trusted with something almost sacred. In a person’s home you get to know them on a level normally reserved for family and close friends, and the medicine changes with it. My teacher spoke with her patients as a trusted adviser and friend, not as the authoritative clinician behind a clinic desk.
I remember thinking: this is what medicine should be.
After years of feeling rushed and being told how to practice, I built DOMUS to practice medicine the way that feels right. Unhurried. In your home. With a doctor who actually knows you.
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