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.

  • The SnūzNLūz: An alarm clock that connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze! Are you a butcher? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to PETAAre you a republican? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the ACLU!Are you a land developer? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the Wilderness Society!Enjoy your freedom? (Blue state version) Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the GOP.Enjoy your freedom? (Red state version) Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to MoveOn.Org This is still one of my favorite incentive programs ever! I’d love to see an experiment with this concept in the health realm.

    The SnūzNLūz:

    An alarm clock that connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze!

    Are you a butcher? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to PETA
    Are you a republican? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the ACLU!
    Are you a land developer? Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the Wilderness Society!
    Enjoy your freedom? (Blue state version) Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to the GOP.
    Enjoy your freedom? (Red state version) Set your SnūzNLūz to donate to MoveOn.Org

    This is still one of my favorite incentive programs ever! I’d love to see an experiment with this concept in the health realm.

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