The Hotel Doctor

  A national housecall service connected me with a guest at the Montage in Beverly Hills. She was suffering the flu; I told her I’d arrive i...

The room contained four young Asian men and extra beds, on one of which lay my patient looking miserable with a wet washrag on his for...

A guest at Checkers, an upscale downtown hotel, had the flu with a 103 fever. I washed my hands before examining her; afterwards I was...

Loews guest was suffering flu symptoms, but mostly he worried about his temperature. I explained that the fever was not an ominous sign....

“Bom dia” said the woman who opened the door. “Bomn dia,” I responded. That’s the limit of my conversational Portuguese. My heart sa...

You do get sick because:         1.   No one is perfect.   The healthiest human is full of clumsy design defects.   Our back muscl...

A guest at the Park Sunset complained of the flu. His temperature was 101; my examination was normal, but patients with influenza have...

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

I talk to guests before making a housecall, so I have a good idea of what’s happening before I drive off or decide that a visit isn’t ne...

“How quickly can you get here?” “Pretty quick, but I like to talk to the guest first. Would you connect me?” I didn’t assume thi...

A Finnish man with a fever was staying in a Hollywood Hotel. Treating flu symptoms is rarely satisfying, but I was pleased to learn that...

When I was an intern, a young man came to our emergency room with fever, body aches, and general miseries.   It seemed routine until we ...

As I entered the room, half a dozen family members stood and bowed. When Japanese bow, it means no one speaks English, so I phoned the J...