The Hotel Doctor

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

People ask about my contract with hotels, but there is none. Concierges, operators, and bellmen call because they know me.   Guest...

After shaving, a guest at the Ramada in Beverly Hills reached for a hairbrush and struck his nose on a clothes hook with enough force ...

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...

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

Searching my housecall database (over 18,000 visits) for “celebrity” turns up 92 hits although that includes wives and children. Y...

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...