The Hotel Doctor

“Normally I wouldn’t bother with this cough, but when I started to bring up green mucus I knew I had to do something…..”      Hotel gue...

“Could you come and give me some penicillin?” Uh oh.   The guest had a sore throat. He was fifty years-old. The only throat infe...

Several times per year, a hotel guest suffers a bloody nose. I don’t make housecalls for nosebleeds because there’s nothing I can do. ...

A glum eleven year-old sat on the bed. His glum parents and two glum adolescents sat nearby. The eleven year-old had developed a sore ...

What many laymen believe are serious signs are not.   Here are examples. 1. Local pain is worrisome; widespread pain is reassuring...

As I wrote last time, doctors treat strep throat with an antibiotic. Does it work? That seems a no-brainer because antibiotics defin...

“He has pus on his tonsils, so it’s probably strep,” said a guest, calling about her teenage son. I hear this phrase regularly. It cau...

“My wife had strep last week. Now I have the same thing.” I receive one “same thing” phone call per week. Naturally, guests hope I...

A teenager at a downtown hotel had strep throat. Unlike most other bacteria, strep remains as sensitive to penicillin as it was seventy ...

The son of two Viceroy guests was suffering a severe sore throat and fever. I drove off in a good mood because it sounded like an ea...