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God's Hotel

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

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An edition of God's hotel (2012)

God's Hotel

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

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"San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-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, lower 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 body and soul"--

"Choosing service in the last remaining almshouse in America, and tracing our understanding of medicine back to its medieval roots, a physician uncovers lost lessons in the care of body and soul"--

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Cover of: God's Hotel
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Apr 02, 2013, Riverhead Books
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Cover of: God's Hotel
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
Apr 29, 2013, Tantor Audio
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Cover of: God's hotel
God's hotel: a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
2012, Riverhead Books
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Source title: God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

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OL31872685M
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1452661847
ISBN 13
9781452661841

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