How This Entrepreneur Paid Off $400,000 Without Closing His Business
A struggling pediatrician reshapes himself into an entrepreneur and builds a healthcare powerhouse.
By Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield • Apr 5, 2016
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From the outside, fit and photogenic French-born physician Michel Cohen was on his way to becoming the 21st century's answer to Dr. Spock. In the early 2000s he ran Tribeca Pediatrics, a smart, hip, high-quality New York City practice that catered to the neighborhood's smart, hip parents, whose children he saw in his signature quirky medical office -- think Pee-wee's Playhouse meets a Wes Anderson film set. The media loved him and parents appreciated his common sense, low-intervention medical approach to children's health.
Things were going so well that he opened up another office in Brooklyn.
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