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.

  • A little perspective on healthcare in other countries.

    People always use other countries as examples of healthcare systems that are “better” than the United States. Here are the populations of those countries:

    Norway = 4,861,100
    Switzerland = 7,779,200
    Sweden = 9,340,682
    Cuba = 11,204,000
    Australia = 22,174,000
    Canada = 34,021,000
    UK = 62,041,708
    Vatican City! = 800 

    Number of Kaiser Permanente members in California = 8.6 million



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