The Hotel Doctor

Plenty of patients have bad breath. They never tell me, and I never mention it because I have no solution better than mouthwash. If you wa...

For much of his presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s blood pressure was high. His doctors knew but didn’t do much. Doctors had b...

A check of Google Maps revealed an ominous red line from my on-ramp to downtown, so I left twenty minutes early for what is usually a half...

Asked how a doctor makes a diagnosis many would answer: “He does a test.” This is actually uncommon. Experts agree that ninety perce...

I sent a colleague to see a hotel guest perhaps thirty years ago. He didn’t carry a bag as well stocked as mine but took some drug sampl...

I was in Lexington, Kentucky, when a national agency asked me to make a housecall in Columbus, Ohio. That’s a three hour drive, but...

People ask if I worry when I make a housecall in a bad neighborhood. I may worry about my car, but an elderly white man in a suit ca...