The Hotel Doctor

Patriots boast that American medicine is the best in the world. My view is more nuanced, but let me take their point of view. You’ll b...

Everyone yearns to understand their medical problem. In the absence of evidence, they use common sense which turns out to be a terribl...

I have collected Medicare since 2005. There’s a belief that this means I get free medical care, but that’s definitely not true. Both M...

Standby MD asked me to see a guest at the Doubletree – in Santa Ana. That’s fifty miles away, but it was Sunday morning; freeway traff...

I saw a young Australian couple traveling with an infant. A placid sleeper in Australia, the infant had been screaming off and on sinc...

When I arrived at the hotel, a father explained that his daughter was under treatment for leukemia. They were visiting relatives when, a...

A guest at the Park Sunset complained of the flu. His temperature was 101; my examination was normal, but patients with influenza have...