God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine Sweet Victoria Paperback
Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale nowFor readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, a medical "page-turner" that traces one doctor's "remarkable journey to the essence of…
Specifikacia God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine Sweet Victoria Paperback
Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale nowFor readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, 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