The Hotel Doctor

I keep an eye on the competition, searching the internet for various combinations of “hotel doctor,” “house call doctor,” “housecall,” etc...

When I finish caring for American guests, I accept their thanks and money and then leave. With guests from another country, I often fi...

Hotel doctoring has always been a dog-eat-dog business, but after 2010 another tiresome phenomenon appeared: concierge doctors. Thes...

A guest at the Westin wanted a doctor to look at a rash. I quoted the fee, always a tense moment. “Do you take insurance?” If th...

The phone rang at midnight for a housecall in Long Beach, 35 miles away. So far, so good. Freeways were clear, and the caller was a reli...

“I am constipated.” “’Constipation’ means different things to different people. What exactly bothers you?” Silence…. When a call...