HIS OFFICE IS on the ground floor, beside the park and the concrete, where 17 million feet of various sizes and pathologies pound an unforgiving earth. Each day, a small portion of these feet shuffle through a modern-looking waiting area—couches, a neon sign—and into a room with blue camo wallpaper (“masculine but chic”) where Brad Schaeffer, D.P.M., examines them, injects some with plasma, lasers away the pain. Sometimes he takes them over to his office in Hoboken, New Jersey, to put them under the knife.
That Jersey offce is where most people know Dr. Schaeffer from. They, the TLC series on which he costars. Its success allowed the Pottstown, Pennsylvania, native, 38, to open his own practice in Manhattan. “No way I ever thought I would do this,” he says.
