The Hotel Doctor

It was midnight when the phone woke me. An Emirate flight attendant at the Hilton in Costa Mesa needed a doctor. That Hilton is in Oran...

A guest at the Crowne Plaza was feeling under the weather. The guest spoke poor English but, through the bellman, asked if I took his ...

A one year-old at the Ramada was fussy and congested, but my exam was normal. She had a cold, I explained. It was not serious but might ...

I hate forbidding guests from flying because of the ticket-change fee. The era when a doctor’s note impressed the airline is long gone. ...

Would I see a lady at the Airport Hilton with an eye problem? I asked the dispatcher from Amerilink, a travel insurance agency, for ...

I’m an early riser, so the 5:30 a.m. phone call last week found me at my computer writing this blog. The caller was Le Montage, a luxury...

A lady’s arm injury seemed straightforward until she explained that her husband had twisted it during an altercation the previous night....