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.

  • The Doctor Is Online

    But of course…this is how everyone communicates in this modern age.  

    I’m sure the newspapers a hundred years ago reported an increased use of cars as compared to the horse and buggy.

    Here’s a quote from a doctor in that article from year’s past:

    “Why should I drive a car when I only get paid to ride a horse?  I mean, patients are lined up in their homes waiting for me to arrive on my horse.  In fact, the hum of a car’s engine would probably scare the poor patients.  And all that steel scares ME!” 

    Today’s doctors are like feral children found living in their own little communication wilderness. 

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