God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the

God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
- For 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).
For readers of Paul Kalanithiâ€™s When Breath Becomes Air,Â a medical â€œpage-turnerâ€ that traces one doctorâ€™s â€œremarkable journey to the essence of medicineâ€ (The San Francisco Chronicle).Â

San Franciscoâ€™s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the HÃ´tel-Dieu (Godâ€™s hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thievesâ€”â€œanyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard timesâ€ and needed extended medical careâ€”ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years.
Â Â Â Â 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 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. Godâ€™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 â€œhealth care facility,â€ revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for the body and the soul.
Country USA
Brand Riverhead Books
Manufacturer Riverhead Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 1594488436_Good
ReleaseDate 2012-04-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781594488436

Country	USA
Brand	Riverhead Books
Manufacturer	Riverhead Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	1594488436_Good
ReleaseDate	2012-04-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781594488436

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

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