The Hotel Doctor

  It upsets me to collect a fee and then send a patient to a clinic or emergency room for care I can’t provide in a housecall. I try to anti...

Only half my callers require one. As I repeat, I’m happy to phone a pharmacy when guests forget legitimate medication: blood pressur...

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...

A guest searching for the bathroom at night stubbed his toe. Pain was excruciating. Vomiting at 2 a.m. is good housecall. Chest pain...

“I can walk on it, so it’s not broken…” “I can move it, so it’s not broken….”   Never forget that popular health beliefs are generally w...

A tour leader explained that one of his group wanted a doctor to look at her hand. She had fallen. Minor injuries are easy, but I do...

A guest was eating lunch in the hotel restaurant when the chair collapsed. Unfortunately, her hand was resting underneath. The desk cler...

A member of an Argentine soccer team fell while roller staking, wrenching his ankle.  A doctor from their travel insurer in Buenos Aires det...