Bedside Manners
Pulling the strings
Back in my greenhorn days in Italy, when I was [...]
The great bidet mystery
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.
A memoir born of newsprint
When people ask me how long it took me to [...]
My life with the Pill
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.
The twilight of private clinics
Italy’s fashion industry and top restaurants belong in the so-called [...]
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 [...]
“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.