Bedside Manners
Medicine: bad moon rising
When I first moved to Italy, any high school graduate [...]
The opposite of help
Doctors have professional organizations in both Italy and the United [...]
On the razor’s edge
Columnist and doctor Susan Levenstein once tried soothing the wife of a hospitalized man by getting inside information. The result proved disastrous.
The sale that wasn’t
ENPAM stands for "Ente Nazionale di Previdenza ed Assistenza dei Medici." [...]
Here comes Susie
When I was a kid we lived in the Pomonok housing project in [...]
Bargain-hunting roulette
My patient Gayle lived hand to mouth with an Italian mechanic [...]
Hospital histrionics
Fraud is a global sport, but in Italy, land of Verdi [...]
Bodies and bodywork
Date: December 24, 1994. Place: Indian Springs Spa, Calistoga, California, [...]
The great adrenalin sweepstakes
Allergy emergency, take one: Charles was on vacation in Tuscany [...]
Germ warfare all’italiana
Vaccinations have grown in scope throughout Italy but gaps remain, writes Susan Levenstein.
Rules, Italian-style
After a decade of widowhood my ex-mother-in-law, Mariada, finally made [...]
Mario and Nikolas
An unstable man in Italy can go mad and kill. But unlike the U.S., slaughters are out of reach. Why? Laws.
“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.