House Plans: Family Physician

Family Physician

Dr. Harrington is excited to be serving the Fredericksburg area in his new office which opened in November of 2008. He has lived in Fredericksburg since 1989 and has served in the surrounding communities of Garrisonville and King George. When the opportunity to move his practice closer to home presented itself in 2008, Dr. Harrington was pleased to relocate. The hardest part of moving was knowing that the distance would be too great for some of his established patients to travel. Dr. Harrington, however, is grateful for the many patients that have chosen to follow him to this new location. He is also looking forward to spending the rest of his career in his home town and establishing new long-term patient doctor relationships here.

Dr. Harrington enjoys the specialty of Family Medicine especially because of the age spectrum it incorporates. He loves seeing patients from newborns to seniors. Being closely family oriented, he enjoys getting to know entire families as well as individual patients. Dr. Harrington believes practicing medicine is a privilege and a calling. He takes his work seriously and strives to be thorough in caring for each and every patient.

Throughout his career, Dr. Harrington has maintained his Board Certification. He has also served in the area as a medical director of a nursing home for nine years and a medical consultant of Snowden for five years. In addition to this, Dr. Harrington had a hospital practice out of Mary Washington Hospital for fourteen years. Now he intends to provide the best medical care possible to the community of Fredericksburg from the office setting.

Chris Harrington grew up in Arlington, Virginia. He went to VA Tech and graduated in Chemical Engineering, then completed Medical School at UVA in 1986. Dr Harrington then married Ruth Deck and moved to North Carolina for family practice residency at North Carolina Baptist Hospital; associated with Wake Forest University.

After finishing residency, Dr. Harrington came to Fredericksburg in 1989 and joined a multi-specialty group where he worked for 14 years in Garrisonville. In 2003, Dr. Harrington decided to go into private practice and due to an opportunity as well as to satisfy a non-compete clause, he opened an office in King George, VA, where he served for five years.

Outside of the office, Dr. Harrington can be seen spending the majority of his time with his busy family. He and his wife Ruth are blessed with six children, four of which are still at home. So, between swim meets, soccer, softball, baseball, school plays, etc. , Dr. Harrington stays quite busy. He is also an active member of New Life In Christ Church in Fredericksburg. As for other activities, Dr. Harrington enjoys cycling through the battle fields with his wife Ruth.

Dr. Harrington is looking forward to establishing meaningful patient doctor relationships here in Fredericksburg and is excited to be serving here as your family practice physician.