The Hotel Doctor

The phone rang at 1:10 a.m. An international housecall agency had a visit in Anaheim, forty miles away. I agreed to go but quoted a la...

I had cared for a ten year-old with fever who had vomited twice. It was the usual stomach virus that might last a day. I reassured his...

The better we conventional doctors handle a problem, the less you’ll read about “alternative” treatments. Your local health food store d...

 4. Doctors order too many tests and prescribe too many drugs. Correct. We love tests, but so you. Most patients with a painful inju...

Critics regularly denounce us for certain practices. These denunciations are more or less correct, but they miss the point.   Examples...

A travel insurer asked me to see nine sick hotel guests. My first thought was food poisoning, but their symptoms turned out to be coug...

A flight attendant at the Airport Holiday Inn was suffering an allergy attack. She couldn’t fly because of the congestion, and her air...