Doctors Extend `House Call' Service to Sick Travelers' Hotel Rooms

Business travelers who get sick on the road may have a betterchance of getting a doctor to make a house call than they would athome.

About 14,000 to 15,000 people a year in the United States havebeen using a rapidly expanding service that promises to put a doctorat your hotel room door within minutes.

Ian Becker of La Jolla, Calif., said his company's service isavailable in 65 U.S. cities, will spread to more than 100 by the endof the year and hopes to be in a few capitals internationally nextyear.No registration or advance arrangements are required. Atraveler who takes ill calls 1-800-HOTELDR (468-3537) and Becker'scompany dispatches a physician, any time of …