Back in my greenhorn days in Italy, when I was practically fresh off the boat, a hospital colleague asked me [...]

Author Henry Miller associated it with women and sex, but the purpose of a bidet remains a secret as guarded as nuclear fission, writes columnist Susan Levenstein.

When people ask me how long it took me to write my memoir, "Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome," I [...]

Columnist Susan Levenstein lost her virginity just when oral bith control was beginning to make an impact in the U.S. Italy, however, remains decades behind.

Italy’s fashion industry and top restaurants belong in the so-called First World, its bureaucracy in what was once labeled the [...]

When I first moved to Italy, any high school graduate who thought they might like to be a doctor had [...]

Doctors have professional organizations in both Italy and the United States, but their purposes are light-years apart. Where the American [...]

Columnist and doctor Susan Levenstein once tried soothing the wife of a hospitalized man by getting inside information. The result proved disastrous.

ENPAM stands for "Ente Nazionale di Previdenza ed Assistenza dei Medici." This burdensomely named organization is Italy's physicians' pension fund. Its [...]

When I was a kid we lived in the Pomonok housing project in Flushing, Queens, a half hour's subway ride from Times Square. This [...]

My patient Gayle lived hand to mouth with an Italian mechanic boyfriend, her sole income selling homemade preserves at the weekly village market. [...]

Fraud is a global sport, but in Italy, land of Verdi and Puccini, melodrama can intercede to embellish it. Some years [...]