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: 9781594486548

ISBN-10: 1594486549

ISBN-13: 9781594486548

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Authors: 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 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, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.46" wide x 8.18" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English