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...

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...

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...