The Hotel Doctor

Malpractice insurers look with suspicion on doctors who operate pain clinics or diet clinics or who perform botox injections or liposuctio...

I once made sixty to eighty visits per year to the Crowne Plaza at the airport. Then they dropped to about five. During a recent v...

A guest was coughing and feverish, and I heard crackling noises when I listened to his lungs, a sign of fluid. I suspected pneumonia. ...

At a medical conference, a speaker came up with a radical proposal. People regularly come to an emergency room complaining of ches...

If hotel doctoring seems romantic to you, it has the same effect on the medical profession, so a want-ad I placed in the Los Angeles Cou...

The only American doctors who don’t worry about malpractice suits are fresh out of training. They believe that practicing good medicine ...

“I’m Doctor Oppenheim….” “Welcome to the Intercontinental, Doctor Oppenheim. Are you checking in?” Damn. Another employee who do...

Leafing through mail revealed a letter from a law office. I broke into a sweat and then calmed myself. Malpractice suit announcements ra...