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_cFEU-NRMF MEDICAL LIBRARY
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050 _aR 154
_b .S943 2012
090 _aR154.S925
_bA3 2013
100 1 _aSweet, Victoria
245 1 0 _aGod's hotel :
_ba doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine /
_cVictoria Sweet
250 _aFirst Riverhead trade paperback edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bRiverhead Books,
_c2013
300 _ax, 416 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographic references (pages [391]-416)
520 _a"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
520 _a"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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521 _arefooah
600 1 0 _aSweet, Victoria
610 2 0 _aLaguna Honda Hospital
_xHistory
650 0 _aPhysicians
_zUnited States
_vBiography
650 0 _aHospital care
_zCalifornia
_zSan Francisco
_vAnecdotes
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_yClick here to view TABLE OF CONTENTS and INDEX.
_uhttps://library.feu-nrmf.ph/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=4b68a533352694781116d1bf373acfb6
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