Exclusive | NYC’s ‘Balloon doctor’ will see you now — debt-strapped med grad’s quirky subway side hustle blows up with straphangers

Exclusive | NYC’s ‘Balloon doctor’ will see you now — debt-strapped med grad’s quirky subway side hustle blows up with straphangers

For Brandon Axelrod, a 27-year-old physician at one of Manhattan’s most acclaimed medical facilities, it’d be easy to have an inflated ego.   But the $405,000 albatross that is his student loan debt keeps the Long Island native grounded.  It’s a humongous, humbling bill that the oral and maximal facial surgery resident is remitting with the help of helium.  … Read more