The Hotel Doctor

A travel insurer asked me to see nine sick hotel guests. My first thought was food poisoning, but their symptoms turned out to be coug...

Her vacation had been a disaster so far. Worse, when she tried to buy amoxicillin to knock out her bronchitis, the pharmacist told her...

Influenza had afflicted a guest for five days with fever, body aches, and general misery. He had meetings, he said, and needed somethi...

An FBI agent was suffering a bad cough. He informed me that this happened every year, and his doctor knocked it out with an antibioti...

A lady at the Westin wanted a housecall for her cough and fever. This seemed reasonable until I learned that she was under treatment for m...

Coris USA, a travel insurer, sent me to see an Argentinean lady with diarrhea at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Diarrhea is usually an easy visi...

As a hotel doctor, I save lives – almost always by calling paramedics or sending guests to an emergency room. Now and then I cure so...

If you receive an antibiotic for a respiratory infection, it’s probably a placebo because almost all respiratory infections are viruses....

He had been coughing for several days, a guest explained, adding that he probably needed a Z-pak. When a patient suggests he needs an ant...

When I started out in the 1980s, pharmaceutical companies sold pills labeled “placebo.” They don’t do that today, so a doctor who wants t...

A one year-old at the Ramada was fussy and congested, but my exam was normal. She had a cold, I explained. It was not serious but might ...