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.

  • superamit: caro: Nice. Yep…good work Foursquare. I’ve been checking in at my gym every time I go so I can keep track of what I’ve been doing. Essentially 2 button presses and I’ve documented my workout sessions. I AM the mayor of Maxim Fitness. Anyone up for challenging my mayoral status? And therein lies one major step forward in the fight against getting off my ass. Add some games and competition to getting me off my ass that I can use against my friends in my neighborhood. And then add in some monetary rewards for winning the competition (like a free drink around the corner at Destination? All of this could then be tied in to my insurance company (or maybe even my taxes?) so my premiums go down as a result of my healthy lifestyle? Damn…wouldn’t it be nice living in the future in an ideal world?

    superamit:

    caro:

    Nice.

    Yep…good work Foursquare. I’ve been checking in at my gym every time I go so I can keep track of what I’ve been doing. Essentially 2 button presses and I’ve documented my workout sessions.

    I AM the mayor of Maxim Fitness. Anyone up for challenging my mayoral status?

    And therein lies one major step forward in the fight against getting off my ass. Add some games and competition to getting me off my ass that I can use against my friends in my neighborhood. And then add in some monetary rewards for winning the competition (like a free drink around the corner at Destination? All of this could then be tied in to my insurance company (or maybe even my taxes?) so my premiums go down as a result of my healthy lifestyle?

    Damn…wouldn’t it be nice living in the future in an ideal world?

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