The Hotel Doctor

I keep an eye on Craigslist and the internet for new competitors on the housecall scene, and they turn up regularly. Other hotel doctors ...

My relations with other Los Angeles housecall doctors are civilized but not close. As a result, when I leave town there’s only one collea...

  “...allo!!” shouted a little girl from her bed as I walked in, but that was her only English. Her French parents had called because she...

My last post reported a housecall service that charged an unbelievable fee. By an odd coincidence within a week I came across another new...

5:30 a.m. Saturday is an ideal time for a call. I had finished writing and was sitting down to breakfast. I told the dispatcher I would b...

Stepping out of the shower, a Doubletree guest stumbled and nicked his leg. He had paid little attention, but now, two days later, the wo...

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...