Texting Doctor Parkinson
Imagine no waiting room at the doctor's office. Scratch that. Now picture no doctor's office at all. In this practice, you make appointments via text, video chat or email, and sometimes your doctor makes house calls. Oh, and you deal directly with the insurance company, because there's no staff for that. Meet Dr. Jay Parkinson. After completing his residency at Johns Hopkins University, the pediatrician was unsure of what he wanted to do with his life. So he founded Hello Health, a newfangled practice in Brooklyn that promises to streamline the process of health care. Is it working?
Finally, Parkinson weighs in on the consequences of the potential death of primary care in America. Plus, should we stop taking prescription drugs? You might rethink filling that prescription when you find out what some medications could be doing to you.
