The Hotel Doctor

My phone rang as I walked into the gym. A guest at the Sunset Plaza wanted a doctor to “check out” her 9 year-old daughter who’d awoke...

A travel insurer sent me to visit a woman complaining of asthma. When I arrived, she admitted that she had a little wheezing. She didn...

A businessman at the Hilton-Garden Inn asked a pharmacist to recommend a cream for his insect bites. To his alarm, the pharmacist info...

If a prescription gave you diarrhea or made you vomit, you might complain. But until well into the twentieth century, the average Amer...

Two women at the Holiday Inn were ill. The mother suffered low abdominal pain with vomiting and diarrhea. It seemed like the usual sto...

International Medical Assistance has a terrible reputation despite being my leading source of business. It often calls over a hundred ti...

At the end of a hotel visit, a guest handed over her credit card. I wrote its number at the bottom of my medical record form. Seeing t...