Two doctors.
Both answer their own phones.
Dr. McCormack and Dr. Guthrey are both double board-certified in internal medicine and pediatrics — "Med-Peds," in the trade. It means one clinic can take care of your newborn, your teenager, you, and your parents. It also means that when you text the practice, a physician who knows your whole family reads it.
Dr. C. Preston McCormack
Physician & Partner
Preston finished at the top of his medical school class at UAMS, was Chief Resident of Pediatrics at Arkansas Children's Hospital, and joined the UAMS faculty as a professor. On paper, the dream track. In practice: fifteen-minute appointments and patients he never got to know.
So in 2022 he opened Perspective Health to practice medicine the way he'd been taught it should work — long visits, small panel, patients who have his number.
He never gave up the part of the old job he loved most: he's still the pediatrician at the Our House shelter clinic, caring for Little Rock families working their way out of homelessness.
Texas-born, Arkansas-raised since 1999. Married to Leslie (you'll meet her at the front of the clinic), three kids, and personally responsible for every plant in the building.
Dr. Caleb Guthrey
Physician & Partner
Caleb grew up in Jonesboro, took two degrees from Arkansas State, and earned his MD at UAMS, where he stayed for residency and then a professorship — helping to launch UAMS's first Med-Peds clinic. Four years of teaching residents and seeing his own patients taught him the same thing it taught Preston: the system doesn't leave enough room for the patient.
He joined Perspective Health in June 2024. He still teaches at UAMS, and still serves at the Our House shelter clinic alongside Preston.
Married to Jordan, dad to a young daughter, avid golfer, serious about BBQ, and — this being Arkansas — all in on the Razorbacks.
"I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug."
"I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being."
"I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure."
— The Hippocratic Oath, modern version, Louis Lasagna (1964). Taken by our physicians and taken seriously.
Read the full oath
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures that are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.
The team
Ambre' Pownall, MSN, RN, APRN
Practice Administrator
Ambre' spent a decade as the neurosurgery nurse practitioner at Arkansas Children's Hospital, then ran service lines and a large Little Rock family-medicine clinic. She watched the fee-for-service model burn out physicians and shortchange patients — and came here to help build the alternative.
Leslie McCormack, MSN, RN, APRN
Clinical Administrator
Leslie was a nurse midwife in Northwest Arkansas and taught at the UAMS College of Nursing for eight years. She keeps the clinical side of Perspective Health running, serves as the registered nurse at Our House Shelter, and is a deacon at Second Presbyterian Church. She's also married to Preston — this is a family practice in the literal sense.
Come shake hands before you spend a dollar.
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