The Hotel Doctor

A lady at the Holiday Inn in North Hollywood reported that her husband was suffering diarrhea. She added that he had fainted during th...

This is strictly for American readers, but others will get a taste of the grotesqueries of our medical system. Let’s say you’ve been...

I once carried narcotics but gave it up. It’s too much hassle. For garden-variety pain, codeine, Vicodin et al are sometimes but not...

Long ago when I was a medical student, a woman came to our gynecology clinic to have an IUD removed. Five years earlier, when aborti...

The Adventure is a large motel near the airport that caters to foreign tourists on a budget. It’s full of colorful, young Europeans and ...

I drove to care for a woman with a respiratory infection at the Georgian, a boutique beach hotel in Santa Monica. My phone rang as I pul...

Hotel doctoring has always been a dog-eat-dog business, but after 2010 another tiresome phenomenon appeared: concierge doctors. Thes...