The Hotel Doctor

At a medical conference, a speaker came up with a radical proposal. People regularly come to an emergency room complaining of ches...

Every summer, a hundred Brazilian adolescents descend on UCLA’s dormitories to study English. When one gets sick, a counselor phones A...

A glum eleven year-old sat on the bed. His glum parents and two glum adolescents sat nearby. The eleven year-old had developed a sore ...

I keep track of competitors, so I saw Medicast’s web site when it came to life. During an interview with two energetic founders...

Universal Assistance asked me to visit a sick Costa Rican in Downy, a suburb of Los Angeles about thirty miles distant. She gave t...

I hear this now and then when a guest learns my fee, more often in the form of a hint (“I’ll talk to my husband and call you back…”). ...

If a prescription gave you diarrhea or made you vomit, you would complain. But until well into the twentieth century, people looked on...