Karen Weese Bell, MD

Karen Weese Bell is a family physician and part-time hospice physician at Countercurrent Health in Fort Collins, board certified in family medicine in Canada, where she trained, and the United States. She has practiced since 2010, starting in rural Saskatchewan and later at a federally qualified health center in New Mexico serving high-risk populations.

She opened a small, insurance-based practice in Fort Collins in 2015, but after ten rewarding, financially difficult years she had to close it. Wanting to give patients real time instead of rushing them through short visits, she started Countercurrent Health. Hospice work shaped that approach, since caring for people at the end of life taught her what patients truly value. She blends evidence-based guidelines with a practical, whole-person approach that leaves room for each patient's own values.

She shares life with her husband, their daughter, and their pets, and finds joy in writing, movement, sitting by a fire, coffee, and time outdoors.