The Hotel Doctor

  “Is he a VIP?” “All our citizens are VIPs” said the consul for Qatar, referring to a countryman at the Airport Hilton. Sick gu...

A guest at the Hyatt had fallen ill and cancelled a flight. He had recovered, but the airline insisted on a doctor’s note before allowin...

A travel insurer asked me to see a lady in Mission Hills complaining of high blood pressure. I drove off confident that this wasn’...

I stopped chopping an onion when the phone rang. A young man at the Airport Hilton was vomiting. For a hotel doctor, a difficult c...

Guests don’t say that. Mostly I hear: “Could I talk to my husband and call you back.…..?” Unlike the competition, I don’t confine ...

Loews guest was suffering flu symptoms, but mostly he worried about his temperature. I explained that the fever was not an ominous sign....

Long before taking up hotel doctoring, I answered an ad from a physician who offered “weight control.” Every era has a weight loss...