Doctors: Traveler's Guide

As more and more Americans take off each year for business and pleasure in faraway places, many of them wonder how they can, if necessary, find a good doctor who speaks English. For $5 a year, the foresighted traveler is now able to get answers covering more than 107 cities in 59 countries.

Establishment of the new service, called "Intermedic," was announced by Manhattan's Dr. Richard E. Winter. Intermedic subscribers will get a passport-size directory that includes a list of the plan's 154 approved doctors and two pages on which the traveler should fill in his own medical data with the aid of his personal physician. This information will not only help the overseas doctor but will guard against the patient's getting a shot of a medicine to which he is allergic. The foreign doctors have agreed to a fee schedule for initial visits: not more than $8 for an office visit, $10 for a hotel call, and $15 for an emergency night call.

The traveler can find an approved doctor for his sniffles or turista or worse in Amman (lordan), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) or Reykjavik (Iceland), as well as in such obvious tourist meccas as Paris (where the American Hospital is cooperating), Rome and Athens. The Soviet Union is not yet covered.