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

by Victoria Sweet

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Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now 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 ). San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the H tel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1594486549

ISBN13:9781594486548

Release Date:April 2013

Publisher:Riverhead Books

Length:432 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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End-Of-Life Care Patient Care Self-Discovery Traditional Medicine Memoir Administration & Medicine Economics Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History

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