Bedside Manners
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.
Reading the tea leaves
Until a few decades ago, doctoring in Italy was half-sorcery, with inked lab results seen as the most arcane of mysteries
“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.