God’s Hotel
Victoria Sweet
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 there.
About the Book
"A watershed book that ambushes and transforms you with its visionary middle way between the irreplaceable skills of doctors, holistic medicine, and twenty-first century technology. Vital, exquisitely written, and spectacularly multi-dimensional."
-- Booklist
About the Author
"Victoria Sweet is a master storyteller and a consummate physician. Her beautifully written stories from the frontline of health care document the struggle of all modern-day healers to hold fast to the immortal soul of Medicine despite the pressures of economics, the self-interest of politics, and the reductionism of science."
-- Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
