Dr. Dave

By Marisa DiMattia

Inked Magazine
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The Lower East Side was once the exclusive domain of New York City’s poorest immigrants and most brazen drug dealers. Over the years, the neighborhood has been co-opted by million dollar condos, but Dr. Dave Ores (or Dr. Dave as locals have known him for 13 years), isn’t beating the anti-gentrification drum. Instead, in his street-front medical office — which looks like a lowbrow art gallery because it is — Dr. Dave powers up his laser equipment and offers expensive services like body hair and tattoo removal, facial rejuvenation and wrinkle reduction to LES’ wealthy new residents. It’s these luxury services that help fund his family practice, while he provides free or low cost medical care to the uninsured and low-income locals, people who live in the projects a few blocks from $700-a-night hotel rooms.

“This isn’t some altruistic thing,” he says. “Health care is a basic human right.” Get the good doctor talking about the state of health care in America and he can go on for hours. And he has, as host of Medically Incorrect, a popular medical show on NY cable TV where he blasted the insurance companies for “complicating the health care system, making billions for themselves and having no real purpose.”

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