The guest I had seen the previous day was found dead, I learned from the manager of a downtown hotel.

A hotel doctor's worst nightmare is a patient dying in the room after he leaves. This has never happened to me although several died soon after I sent them to the hospital. It turned out that this guest was not my first.

She was an elderly lady complaining of palpitations whom I had seen the night before. On my examination, her heart was beating too rapidly, so I sent her to an emergency room. After the usual delays, the emergency room doctor found the heart beating normally, so he told her to mention it to her doctor and then sent her back to the hotel where she died.