Nobody is safe from the Uberization of the economy, not even doctors. A new startup from Los Angeles wants to bring back the good old days of doctors making house calls and remove the need to go to a centralization location in order to receive treatment. Known as Heal, this startup promises to send a doctor to your door within an hour after being requested, all through its mobile app.
These days you can take yourself to the doctor or teleport the doctor to you from a mobile device Now Heal, a startup out of Los Angeles, wants to take us back to an era of old-fashioned house calls by ‘ubering’ a doctor to your door. We’ve written about marijuana delivery services that will ‘uber’ over a doctor to you for “insomnia” and other needs for weed, but Heal sends the traditional kind of medical doctor, complete with black bag, stethoscope and other portable, hi-tech gadgets. Heal founder Dr. Renee Dua, a board certified kidney specialist, came up with the idea after spending a long night in the ER for her infant son’s cold. “It was awful. When your kid is sick you need a simple way to get a doctor fast,” she said. Unfortunately for Dr. Dua, there weren’t any pediatricians available at the hospital that night and she had to sit around in the uncomfortable waiting room chairs with her sick son.