After completing a residency in pediatrics and one in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins, I started a practice for my neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn in September 2007. People would visit my website; see my Google calendar; choose a time and input their symptoms; my iphone would alert me; I would make a house call; they'd pay me via Paypal; and we'd follow up by email, IM, videochat, or in person.

Fast Company calls me The Doctor of the Future. I've got a design and consulting firm called The Future Well. Read more about me here.

  • Breakthrough

    ourhellohealth:

    rbalboajr:

    Modern medical breakthroughs in the last 100 years include antibiotics, vaccines, chemotherapy, surgical techniques, etc.

    By far, in the next decade, the most important life-saving public health breakthrough will not be found by pharmaceutical companies or medical device manufacturers.

    It will be HOW we DELIVER healthcare

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      It’s an interesting thought, but I would like to believe that it is prevention that will make a big difference. I’ve...
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