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.

  • Prescribing a medication with an iPad.

    When doctors use computers, their productivity decreases by 18%. Here’s a perfect example why. Watch this video and then imagine how long it takes for a doctor to whip out their prescription pad, scribble a name, a drug, a signature, and hand it to the patient. And for the record, I love these guys who built the app…I know them personally and they do great work. They’re pushing the boundaries on how doctors use computers.

    Electronic Medical Records won’t save healthcare when the competition is productivity and paper.

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