The Hotel Doctor

At the Ramada, I cared for a lady whose eyes were red and itchy. She had no allergies, and I saw no evidence of an infection. I suspec...

As I wrote last time, doctors treat strep throat with an antibiotic. Does it work? That seems a no-brainer because antibiotics defin...

The better we conventional doctors handle a problem, the less you’ll read about “alternative” treatments. Your local health food store d...

A guest’s ankle injury didn’t seem serious, so I told her we’d wait a day before deciding on an x-ray. At her request, I wrapped the ank...

Long experience has taught me that patients love to hear the following. 1.   “This isn’t a serious problem, and it never turns int...

4.   Doctors spend too little time explaining how to relieve stress.      Probably… Stress makes everything worse but doesn’t cause ...

4.   “Staying in bed won’t make this go away any faster.” Many laymen believe illness requires rest. They skip work or school. Mothers g...

Doctors grumble at the popularity of alternative medicine, but the truth is that we still have a monopoly. This is not so in other civil...

Practitioners of complementary medicine (alternative medicine, herbal medicine, homeopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture, etc.) always know ...

In the old days doctors took for granted that anyone who practiced alternative medicine (herbalists, naturopaths, homeopaths, Ayurveda, ...