Joe Downtown: New-to-downtown doctor sets out to demystify medicine

Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013 | 2 a.m.

There may be no one better suited to configure a new way to practice medicine in Las Vegas than Zubin Damania, a Stanford-trained doctor who last year uprooted from the Bay Area and moved his family to Las Vegas. Joining an army of people lured downtown to try something new, Damania is dead serious about medicine — and he embodies a streak of witty silliness displayed on his website, zdoggmd.com. If you happened upon the videos first — which are both instructive and off-the-wall, with ZDogg playing the part of a “word-up”-spewing, off-white (he’s Indian) rapper — you might think ...

Joe Schoenmann doesn’t just cover downtown, he lives and works there. Schoenmann is Greenspun Media Group’s embedded downtown journalist, working from an office in the Emergency Arts building.

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By The_Next_Opinion

Jan. 12, 2013

1:34 p.m.

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So he lives in Summerlin and is practicing concierge medicine? That's not exactly groundbreaking.

Harrah's,(now Caesar's) had a hybrid FSA / high deductible plan in place for several years. I don't know if they are still utilizing that model but it was around in 2008 or so.

Don't get me wrong, I'm supportive of what is happening downtown, but they didn't just invent the wheel here.
By 777s

Jan. 13, 2013

7:08 p.m.

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Tony bought himself a private doctor for the Zappo's executive staff. I am sick of Downtown Joe cowtowing to Hseih and Zappo's moving downtown. He is starting his own company town there with his own $350MM. Why is the Sun and it he Greenspun's, who will loose out by Zappo's leaving Green Valley, always righting about this crap? Sick of it. Have Joe write about REAL people, not Tony monkeys.