The Hotel Doctor

In the Pasadena Sheraton last Sunday, my phone rang for a visit in Irvine. Pasadena is twenty miles from home, Irvine fifty miles. I wou...

A lady with a cold phoned for a doctor at 4 p.m. on a Tuesday. From my home to hers in the Hollywood Hills required a thirteen mile ...

A young woman at the Georgian Hotel felt a cold coming on, so she inspected her throat and discovered a dozen bumps on the far end of he...

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...

Her child’s nose was bleeding, explained the mother. Could I come? I was tempted. Once in the hotel room, I would ask questions. I wou...

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...