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"A remarkable journey into the essence of medicine." -DANIELLE OFRI, MD, 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. In the relatively low-tech but human-paced environment, these extraordinary patients began to transform the way Victoria Sweet understood her work, evoking an older idea of medicine, one where the body is a garden to be tended, rather than a machine to be hxed. God's Hotel tells their stories 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....
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"A remarkable journey into the essence of medicine." -DANIELLE OFRI, MD, 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. In the relatively low-tech but human-paced environment, these extraordinary patients began to transform the way Victoria Sweet understood her work, evoking an older idea of medicine, one where the body is a garden to be tended, rather than a machine to be hxed. God's Hotel tells their stories 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.
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"A tour de force."-ABIGAIL ZUGER, MD, The New York Times
¦Beautiful and unique."-SUZANNE KOVEN, MD, The Boston Globe
"Radical and inspiring."-V^/i/V/r/ FAIR
"Captivating . . . V\/ith this humane and thoughtful work, Sweet joins physician-authors such as Oliver Sacks, Jerome Groopman, and Abraham Verghese."—rWf DALLAS MORNING NEWS
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