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.

  • Organizing people in real time in a community to improve health. I had the pleasure of meeting with Joe Edelman at Groundcrew this week. Groundcrew is a new service that matches need with human ability in real time in a given location. It can connect to Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare. Groundcrew is agnostic. It can be used for any reason to organize real time meetups. How can we leverage Groundcrew to improve health? Emergently disseminating vaccines to a community.Organizing emergency services in disasters.Organizing pick up games for sports.Sellers at urban farmers markets can announce their crops. There are always many other use cases. Super excited to see where this platform goes.

    Organizing people in real time in a community to improve health.

    I had the pleasure of meeting with Joe Edelman at Groundcrew this week. Groundcrew is a new service that matches need with human ability in real time in a given location. It can connect to Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare. Groundcrew is agnostic. It can be used for any reason to organize real time meetups.

    How can we leverage Groundcrew to improve health?

    Emergently disseminating vaccines to a community.
    Organizing emergency services in disasters.
    Organizing pick up games for sports.
    Sellers at urban farmers markets can announce their crops.

    There are always many other use cases. Super excited to see where this platform goes.

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