Curbside Care is bringing doctors to doorsteps

When Wharton MBA student Scott Ames was traveling with his fiancee in Washington, D.C. last fall, a long wait for a simple antibiotic prescription caused a lot of aggravation and sparked the idea for an innovative healthcare start-up, Curbside Care.

Ames’ fiancee was experiencing ear pain, and the only way to get an antibiotic so far away from home was to wait three hours at an urgent care center and pay a hefty bill. A disgruntled Ames knew there had to be an easier way to receive relatively simple medical care.

He asked himself why, if he could hail an on-demand car service from an app on his phone, he couldn’t do the same with a doctor’s appointment. Upon returning to campus, he brought his idea to his Wharton rugby teammate, Grant Mitchell — who had just received his MD from the Perelman School of Medicine and was completing his MBA at Wharton — and together they launched Curbside Care to solve that very problem.

Originally published in The Daily Pennsylvanian

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