Dr. Jay Parkinson is riding a wave of mini-celebrity on New York blogs. He’s a young physician specializing in care for 18 to 40 year olds in Manhattan and Brooklyn without health insurance. He doesn’t have an office, makes only house calls, has an encyclopedic knowledge of the cheapest places to get MRIs and pick up prescriptions, and will talk to you over AIM, Gchat, email, or the phone. For these services, you pay $500 annually.

Oh, and he’s also a freelance photographer of naked ladies. And a bit of a media whore. But this is a seriously great idea.

–Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.