Stephen Van Kirk Friedman, M.D. is a physician with a practice dedicated to aviation medicine. That means you’ll be sitting (briefly), in the waiting room with other pilots only, not with sick people sneezing and coughing and screaming children.

Dr Friedman is also a commercial pilot, who flies a 2007 glass-panel Piper Archer, and a part 91 corporate Pilatus PC12. Dr Friedman is also a board-certified emergency physician, and former New York City Paramedic. He is working to finish his helicopter rating.