Bedside Manners
COVID: It ain’t over [1]
Is the pandemic nearly over and is the SARS-CoV-2 virus [...] [1]
Cracks in the half-full glass [4]
Italy’s glass-half-full status in managing the COVID assault is beginning [...] [4]
Italy’s two COVID faces [5]
Italy continues to represent something of a paradox when it [...] [5]
Giovanni’s head (or, the vaccine game) [7]
It’s official. Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has announced his [...] [7]
Booing England, hailing Italy [8]
With typically wry humor, the English came up with a [...] [8]
No sweetness in sight [9]
The aggressive nature of COVID-19’s so-called Delta variant — it [...] [9]
On Sinovac, Delta, and gaps [10]
Scores of countries, especially in the developing world, have based [...] [10]
Italy’s on time [11]
Successfully persuading a population that its best interests are best [...] [11]
No final word on masks [12]
It is remarkable, and not at all cheering, that a [...] [12]
Pull the plug on AstraZeneca [13]
There's no other way to put it: AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine [...] [13]
On rules and AstraZeneca [14]
Now that millions of us have been fully vaccinated, we're [...] [14]
A season for mutants [15]
Many people are asking the same question about the growing [...] [15]
“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 [20] and a personal blog titled Stethoscope on Rome [21] In 2019, Paul Dry Books [22] will publish her book “Dottoressa [23]“ about her adventures practicing medicine in Rome.