The losses that shaped a mission.

Mary Gorder didn't set out to build a healthcare company. Healthcare came looking for her — over and over, in the most painful ways imaginable.

Mary's two sisters were the first to be taken. One died at just six months old, from heart failure her family couldn't afford to treat. Another lost her life to cancer — and to this day, Mary doesn't even know what type. There was no way to find out. There was no doctor. There was no diagnosis. There was no money.

Then in 2001, Mary lost her father. He suffered from severe hypertension for years. But without access to a doctor or proper medication, he treated it the only way he could — with garlic, the folk remedy his generation had been told would help. He died of a stroke. A treatable condition that ended his life because affordable healthcare was simply out of reach.

For most people, that much loss would break them. For Mary, it built her resolve.

From grief to purpose.

Mary married a doctor. Through him, she saw the healthcare system from the inside — and she saw a different kind of suffering. Her husband worked impossibly long hours. Patients needed him. Hospitals needed him. The system was relentless. He was rarely home. His patients got his time. His family got the leftovers.

When Mary became a widow and a single mother of four young children, she made a decision that would change everything: she would build a business that solved both problems at once.

One that gave families like hers — families who couldn't afford traditional healthcare — access to real doctors. And one that gave doctors like her late husband a different way to practice medicine. A way that didn't force them to choose between their patients and their children. A way they could work from home, be present for their families, and still save lives.

That dream became DrsOnCalls.