TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sweet,Victoria
TI  - God's hotel: a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine 
SN  - 9781594486548
AV  - R 154  .S943 2012
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Sweet, Victoria
KW  - Laguna Honda Hospital
KW  - History
KW  - Physicians
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Hospital care
KW  - California
KW  - San Francisco
KW  - Anecdotes
N1  - Includes bibliographic references (pages [391]-416); chinuch; refooah
N2  - "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"--Provided by publisher; "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"--Provided by publisher
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