The premise of the latest hit medical drama sounds improbable even for television: A doctor who makes house calls. In the Hamptons. Dashing among the hedgerows, dropping in on the rich and sick at one eye-popping estate after another.

But come on. Who makes house calls these days, even on TV? The last such doc who did was Marcus Welby, M.D., and he has been off the air for more than 30 years. So Hank Lawson, the young "concierge doctor" on USA Network's Royal Pains, is just another Hollywood fantasy, right? 

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