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.

  • Zappos hires robots to take over inventory floor

    I’m a huge fan of Zappos.

    I still have no idea why this sort of thing has not been implemented in the online pharmacy era with pre-packaged medications.  Unfortunately, laws exist prohibiting this sort of activity with the assumption that this technology isn’t an alternative to real human pharmacists.  I’m sure the error rate of Amazon and Zappos fulfillment is much, much less than the 100 steps between a doctor’s handwritten prescription and the patient’s mouth.

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