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.

  • An update on my work environment: Since I bought my “standing desk” about one month ago, I now don’t even realize I’m standing all day while I work. I designed my environment around me to encourage a certain kind of behavior I’ve deemed healthy.  And now I don’t even know I’m being healthy. I’m just working.  That’s how behavior change happens. Design your life to fit the behavior you want to encourage.

    An update on my work environment:

    Since I bought my “standing desk” about one month ago, I now don’t even realize I’m standing all day while I work. I designed my environment around me to encourage a certain kind of behavior I’ve deemed healthy. 

    And now I don’t even know I’m being healthy. I’m just working. 

    That’s how behavior change happens. Design your life to fit the behavior you want to encourage.

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      Rafer sez: I’m nearly 3 years into my standing desk and can’t go back. Try it barefoot or in vibrams and feel even...
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      A standing workstation/desk is No. 1 on the list of things that I want in my office. Even above computers that are...
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      I would LOVE a standing desk at work, but it ain’t gonna happen. And I’m too poor to buy one for home, alas.
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