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.

  • Here is the cover story from the just-released Hospitals and Health Networks magazine entitled, Your Future Chief of Staff? “A lot of my friends are artists and freelancers, and if you make $40,000 a year and health insurance costs $950 a month like it does in New York you are kind of screwed,” Parkinson says. “To succeed, I had to create something that these people would want enough to pay for it. So I asked myself, ‘What would I want?’ ”

    Here is the cover story from the just-released Hospitals and Health Networks magazine entitled, Your Future Chief of Staff?

    “A lot of my friends are artists and freelancers, and if you make $40,000 a year and health insurance costs $950 a month like it does in New York you are kind of screwed,” Parkinson says. “To succeed, I had to create something that these people would want enough to pay for it. So I asked myself, ‘What would I want?’ ”

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