The Hotel Doctor

When I was an intern, a young man came to our emergency room with fever, body aches, and general miseries.   It seemed routine until we ...

Every sick hotel guest should contact his or her family doctor before calling me. The doctor, being familiar with the patient, is more l...

Hotel guests, Americans above all, do not like paying for a housecall. Many, if they are feeling bad, decide to “call an ambulance.” ...

People don’t like to disturb doctors, so a woman with abdominal pain suffered through the night before calling at 6 a.m. I was about ea...

Doctors grumble at the popularity of alternative medicine, but the truth is that we still have a monopoly. This is not so in other civil...

Sick people yearn to get better, but hotel guests seem particularly impatient. Many are taking an expensive vacation or business trip, so ...

Cheap hotels skimp on security. I park, enter, and wander about at any hour, and no one bothers me. Luxury hotels also make my life easy. ...