Dr. Shohreh Soboutipour loves gardening.

No seed is wasted in her home. Everything goes back in the ground, she said.

“I love to see life coming from something and knowing that I helped it grow,” she said.

Her nurturing personality influences the care she provides patients as a new family medicine physician at Medical Group of the Carolinas – Family & Internal Medicine – Reidville Road.

From Iran to the U.S., from urgent care to family medicine

Dr. Soboutipour grew up in Iran and always had a desire to help people. She attended medical school at Kerman University of Medical Sciences in southeast Iran before joining the Family Medicine Residency Program at Spartanburg Regional.

“Since high school, I’ve thought that I needed to help people,” Dr. Soboutipour said.

After finishing residency, Dr. Soboutipour spent nearly 10 years working in urgent care settings. She was a doctor at Immediate Care Center – Westside for one and a half years before joining Prisma Health and working at a Prisma urgent care.

She returned to Spartanburg Regional earlier this year to focus on family medicine and take care of a wide spectrum of patients on their overall health and wellness.

Dr. Soboutipour’s husband, also from Iran, is a biochemistry professor at Wofford College, and the two have been married for more than 18 years.

Siblings in health care

While neither of Dr. Soboutipour’s parents come from medical backgrounds – her father is a customs agent for a major airport – her brother and sister are both practicing physicians now living in Europe.

Her sister practices emergency medicine while her brother is a family physician.

Her parents taught their children to be studious and prioritize high academic marks, which she said helped her pursue the medical field.

Treating patients like her own family
Dr. Soboutipour talks to patients like they are her own family members and doesn’t shy away from being down-to-earth and personable. She said that’s one way to help patients feel comfortable and be more open to treatment options.

“I always have been looking at patients as if they were me needing to be treated or my parents needing to be treated,” she said. “Bedside manners are so important. It’s very important to respect and treat them well.”

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Soboutipour, call Medical Group of the Carolinas – Family & Internal Medicine – Reidville Road at 864-253-8140.