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.

  • To reduce waste and improve quality means organizing ourselves in ways that would sacrifice revenues. And that makes it hard…We’re not in a system that’s well equipped to make this a satisfying way to spend your time.
    Atul Gawande on the conundrum facing doctors, in an interview with Ezra Klein (via sleuth)
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