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

Name: God's Hotel A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
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ISBN: 9781594488436

ISBN-10: 1594488436

ISBN-13: 9781594488436

Edition: 2012

Authors: Victoria Sweet

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San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/26/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Introduction. How I Came To God's Hotel



First Years



The Love of Her Life



The Visit of Dee and Tee, Health-Care Efficiency Experts



The Miraculous Healing of Terry Becker



Slow Medicine



Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman



Dancing to the Tune of Glenn Miller



Wedding at Cana



How I Fell in Love



It's a Wonderful Country



Recalled to Life



The Spirit of God's Hotel


Acknowledgments


Notes