God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the

God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

Look out for Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, coming October 2017 For readers of Paul Kalanithiâ‚¬s When Breath Becomes Air,Â a medical â‚¬Å“page-turnerâ‚¬Â that traces one doctorâ‚¬s â‚¬Å“remarkable journey to the essence of medicineâ‚¬Â (The San Francisco Chronicle).Â San Franciscoâ‚¬s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the HÂ´tel-Dieu (Godâ‚¬s hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thievesâ‚¬"â‚¬Å“anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard timesâ‚¬Â and needed extended medical careâ‚¬"ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years. Â Â Â Â Laguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea, of the body as a garden to be tended.Â Godâ‚¬s HotelÂ tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern â‚¬Å“health care facility,â‚¬Â revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for the body and the soul.
Country USA
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-04-26
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-04-26
Format	Kindle eBook

God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

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