The Hotel Doctor

  A foreign student at the University of California had bronchitis. I live three miles from UCLA but this was the University of California a...

  “’allo!” a little girl shouted from her bed as I walked into the room, but that was her only English. Her French parents had called becaus...

I keep an eye on the competition, searching the internet for various combinations of “hotel doctor,” “house call doctor,” “housecall,” etc...

Y ounger, cooler, more expensive doctors own the franchise on Los Angeles film shoots, but I go now and then. A European director staying ...

  6 a.m. Saturday is an ideal time for a call. I had finished writing and was sitting down to breakfast. I told the dispatcher that I would ...

  “You’ve got a black spot,” said my wife when I asked her to scratch my back. “Black as the tar in the road?” I asked. She confirmed thi...

  A yoga instructor was attending a convention of like-minded devotees when one vendor gave him a sample of a natural energy pill. Within ha...