The Hotel Doctor

I take good care of myself, but the best life-style only postpones the inevitable. I was seeing a cardiologist at the Pacific Hear...

I awoke at my usual time, wrote for a few hours, ate breakfast, and went back to bed. Having made a wee-hour visit to a distant hotel,...

When I finish caring for American guests, I accept their thanks and money and then leave. With guests from another country, I often fi...

A guest at the Georgian hotel in Santa Monica wanted a housecall, said the desk clerk. She had a urine infection. That was good ne...

Guests often ask for something to calm them, and I try to comply by stocking Valium. Tranquilizers relieve anxiety but not the pai...

As I wrote last time, doctors treat strep throat with an antibiotic. Does it work? That seems a no-brainer because antibiotics defin...

“He has pus on his tonsils, so it’s probably strep,” said a guest, calling about her teenage son. I hear this phrase regularly. It cau...