Bedside Manners
Thoughts on Phase 2
I recently asked my Facebook friends in Italy, most of [...]
Too many and too close
Encouraged by a steady drop in the number of severely [...]
Do masks scare COVID?
The time has come for me wade into the coronavirus [...]
Home, sick home… maybe
Italians are flexible, resourceful, and sensible. These are the traits [...]
The fall of Lombardy
The wildfire spread of the coronavirus pandemic in northern Italy [...]
The never-ending sickness
Scientists around the globe are scrambling to find a pharmacological [...]
Exile on Main Street
On April 14, 2010, the erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland [...]
That damned virus
Rome is living through a strange time. Its streets, usually [...]
Don’t mess with tetanus
Long before I went bottoms-up in the Nile, the medical [...]
The Nile? Bottoms up!
You can take a boat up the White Nile from [...]
The research game, alla Italiana
Throughout 1980, when my Rome medical practice was just getting [...]
A date with destiny
For Goethe, Italy was the idyllic land of golden oranges. [...]
“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.