The Hotel Doctor

  Almost every hotel guest that I see is working or taking an expensive vacation, so illness is more inconvenient than usual. Everyone agree...

If a prescription gave you diarrhea or made you vomit, you would complain. But until well into the twentieth century, people looked on...

At one point years ago, I had to discard half a dozen bottles of antibiotic eye drops when they reached their expiration date. I c...

She had a fourteen hour flight to Australia, explained a woman with a thick French accent. Unfortunately, she had thrown her back out ...

“A shot to put her out.” More than once I’m called when a guest suffers a tragic loss such as the death of a child or spouse. Distre...

When I started out in the 1980s, pharmaceutical companies sold pills labeled “placebo.” They don’t do that today, so a doctor who wants t...