The Hotel Doctor

  Tourists come to America expecting a strange foreign land. They usually leave satisfied, but encountering an American doctor is an unexpec...

Guests often ask for something to calm them, and I try to comply by stocking Valium. Tranquilizers relieve anxiety but not the pai...

“Woody Allen needs a doctor. How quickly can you get here?” The caller was the concierge from the J.W. Marriott.             ...

Patients are often suicidally reluctant to wake a doctor, but I don’t object. Traffic is light, parking is easy, and since I have no off...

“Someone needs to check my nephew. He’s shaking and really upset. How quick can you be here?” This was a bad call in many ways. I ma...