The Hotel Doctor

“Could you come and give me some penicillin?” Uh oh.   The guest had a sore throat. He was fifty years-old. The only throat infe...

A glum eleven year-old sat on the bed. His glum parents and two glum adolescents sat nearby. The eleven year-old had developed a sore ...

I spend less than $1,000 a year for supplies, so giving them out gratis is no sacrifice. Two or three times a year, I place an order a...

“I’m coughing my head off. My head is plugged. I have a fever. I’m on vacation, and I need something.” I’ve seen over 4,000 guests...

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

“He has pus on his tonsils, so it’s probably strep,” said a guest, calling about her teenage son. I hear this phrase regularly. It cau...

 4. Doctors order too many tests and prescribe too many drugs. Correct. We love tests, but so you. Most patients with a painful inju...

“My wife had strep last week. Now I have the same thing.” I receive one “same thing” phone call per week. Naturally, guests hope I...

“I’ve been hacking up stuff for a couple days, and it’s turning green.” “It sounds like the virus that’s going around,” I said. “It’...

I’m running low on ondansetron, the best antinausea pill. Unfortunately, I’m not low on many other supplies. I buy through an intern...

Patriots boast that American medicine is the best in the world. My view is more nuanced, but let me take their point of view. You’ll b...

A least they’re cheap for common problems your doctor encounters in the office which are the same as I see in hotels. Here are examples ...

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...

“I need something stronger….” It’s common sense that if a drug isn’t working, the doctor should prescribe a better drug. In fact, th...