Bedside Manners
A vaccine progress snapshot
With the second month of the new year just around [...]
British blundering?
Around Christmastime, a newly mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2, formally known [...]
Present arms!
The approval of effective COVID-19 vaccines in the United States [...]
M for Moderna
Though drug maker Moderna's announcement of its mRNA-1273 corona virus [...]
The 90 percent solution
A doctor is also a medical scientist. And all scientists [...]
Italy and COVID: Strike two
Advocates of the so-called herd immunity strategy to combat the [...]
Best of times, worst of times
Amid the West's travails with COVID-19, a not-so-little detail is [...]
COVID-19: Paranoia is your best friend
The Russians claim they have the world's first effective coronavirus [...]
On COVID deniers and schools
In June, while I was in quarantine in Rome after [...]
Help is on the way
The coronavirus has been a disruptive force in education the [...]
COVID: The Rome test game
Now that I'm finally back in Rome after months of [...]
The Italian “correction”
Italy is now that much closer to knowing the full [...]
“Bedside Manners” Author

Susan Levenstein
Susan Levenstein, MD, moved to Italy in 1978, and in 1980 founded a Rome practice that has thrived since. She maintains both a professional site and a personal blog titled Stethoscope on Rome In 2019, Paul Dry Books will publish her book “Dottoressa“ about her adventures practicing medicine in Rome.