The Resource God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine, Victoria Sweet
God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine, Victoria Sweet
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- Summary
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- "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"--
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 372 p.
- Contents
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- First years
- The love of her life
- The visit of Dee and Tee, health-care efficiency experts
- The miraculous healing of Terry Becker
- Slow medicine
- Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman
- Dancing to the tune of Glen Miller
- Wedding at Cana
- How I fell in love
- It's a wonderful country
- Recalled to life
- The spirit of God's hotel
- Isbn
- 9781594488436
- Label
- God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
- Title
- God's hotel
- Title remainder
- a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine
- Statement of responsibility
- Victoria Sweet
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "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"--
- "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"--
- Assigning source
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- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sweet, Victoria
- Dewey number
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- 610.92
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- R154.S925
- LC item number
- A3 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sweet, Victoria
- Laguna Honda Hospital (San Francisco, Calif.)
- Physicians
- Hospital care
- Label
- God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine, Victoria Sweet
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-372)
- Contents
- First years -- The love of her life -- The visit of Dee and Tee, health-care efficiency experts -- The miraculous healing of Terry Becker -- Slow medicine -- Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman -- Dancing to the tune of Glen Miller -- Wedding at Cana -- How I fell in love -- It's a wonderful country -- Recalled to life -- The spirit of God's hotel
- Control code
- ocn741538561
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 372 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594488436
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2011049340
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine, Victoria Sweet
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-372)
- Contents
- First years -- The love of her life -- The visit of Dee and Tee, health-care efficiency experts -- The miraculous healing of Terry Becker -- Slow medicine -- Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman -- Dancing to the tune of Glen Miller -- Wedding at Cana -- How I fell in love -- It's a wonderful country -- Recalled to life -- The spirit of God's hotel
- Control code
- ocn741538561
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 372 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594488436
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2011049340
- Other physical details
- ill.
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