The Hotel Doctor

 "My other son is coming down with something. Do you mind taking a quick look?” If you wonder if it annoys doctors to see an extr...

“Our general manager’s husband has an eye problem. Could you see him this morning?” “I could.” “She’s wondering how much you’d cha...

"This is the Shore hotel,” I heard after answering the phone. That sounds routine, but it brought joy to my heart. It was a fir...

Coris USA, a travel insurer, sent me to see an Argentinean lady with diarrhea at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Diarrhea is usually an easy visi...

Visiting Disneyland, a couple’s two year-old twins fell ill. The parents consulted the concierge, and a doctor who wasn’t me duly arri...

“I need a second opinion about something personal,” said an elderly man at a West Hollywood hotel. It’s always pleasure to visit a pat...

I was awake at 7 a.m. writing this blog when a guest called with symptoms of a bladder infection. Being American, her first question w...