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God's Hotel

A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

By Victoria Sweet

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A medical "page-turner" that traces one doctor's "remarkable journey to the essence of medicine" (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the H tel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves-"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care-ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years. 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. God's Hotel 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 "health care facility," revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for the body and the soul.

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- SKU: 9781594486548
- Manufacturer: Riverhead
- ISBN 13: 9781594486548
- Language of Text: English
- Publication Date: 04/02/2013
- Format: Paperback
- Author: Victoria Sweet
- Page Count: 416
- Width: 5.40 inches
- Height: 1.00 inches
- Length: 8.10 inches
- Weight: 0.04 pounds
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