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.

  • I’m not too eloquent talking about these things…I was making payments, but I can’t anymore and I really have no idea what I’m going to do. It seems absurd they can charge this much. When I think about all this, it gets me so furious. I could die tomorrow because of other operations I need that I can’t afford.

    Vic Chesnutt

    Vic committed suicide and died on Christmas day in Athens, GA. Many close friends say it was a result of financial pressure from mounting medical bills (amongst other things of course).

    I saw Vic perform once when he opened for Wilco. At the time, I unfortunately didn’t really understand the significance. But then I met friends in NYC who were his friends in Athens and they said there was something truly magical about Vic. And then this:

    “in 1991 i moved to athens georgia in search of god, but what I discovered instead was vic chesnutt. hearing his music completely transformed the way i thought about writing songs, and i will forever be in his debt.”

    -jeff mangum, neutral milk hotel

    and

    “We have lost one of our great ones.”

    -Michael Stipe, Dec 25, 2009

    I think the world lost something truly special on Christmas day. RIP Vic.

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