The Hotel Doctor

I once made sixty to eighty visits per year to the Crowne Plaza at the airport. Then they dropped to about five. During a recent v...

A flight attendant with diarrhea is usually good news. Airline crew are young, so they suffer uncomplicated medical problems, and diar...

A guest was coughing and feverish, and I heard crackling noises when I listened to his lungs, a sign of fluid. I suspected pneumonia. ...

  “We’re at 501 West Olympic,” explained my caller. “Come up to the seventeenth floor.” That’s downtown, my least favorite neighbo...

If you want a housecall in Los Angeles, you’re likely to get me even if you don’t ask for me. I don’t have a web site, but searchi...

A man’s foot began hurting one evening. By the following morning pain was excruciating. That sounded like gout, one of my favorite...

The J.W. Marriott is not a regular, but its doctor is not a friend, so I don’t turn down its calls which arrive now and then. Driv...