For an excellent account, see http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/story/news/local/2014/10/17/slow-medicine-strikes-chord/17400861/
Translations of GOD’S HOTEL
We’ve just signed the contract for God’s Hotel to be published in Chinese, in China. So now it’s been translated into: Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, and Hungarian. Looking forward to the European countries stepping up!
Interview on Slow Medicine with Dr. Sweet at Words and Conversations
HuffPo publishes an excerpt from God’s Hotel
On my patient, Terry Becker’s, Miraculous Healing: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-victoria-sweet/the-miraculous-healing-of_b_5432021.html
Two New Book Reviews of GOD’S HOTEL
Even at this late date! The first from the club of which I was not a member, the honor society for medical school, here: Pharos Book Reviews 4-1.2014 – incl Gods Hotel and the second from the journal, Family Medicine: http://www.stfm.org/Portals/49/Documents/FMPDF/FamilyMedicineVol46Issue5Silk395.pdf
GOD’S HOTEL SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING
An interview with Dr. Sweet in the HuffPo
On taking care of yourself in the healthcare system, sexism, and self-discovery, an interview by Mehroz Baig, see here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mehroz-baig/medicine-and-selfdiscover_b_5186859.html
Dr. Sweet awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2014-2015.
Thanks very much to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for their award of a Fellowship in the category of Creative Arts, General Non-Fiction, for the 2014-2015 year. It will allow Dr. Sweet to work on her next book, tentatively titled, “Slow Medicine, Fast Medicine: Healing in an Age of Technology.” http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/victoria-sweet/
Florence Nightingale and the New York Times
FN made it back into the news, perhaps partly because the Crimea suddenly seems close, and not far. She was an amazing woman, and once you start to read her, it’s hard to stop. For my article on Nightingale, Obamacare, and the idea of a calling, see http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/
GOD’S HOTEL picked as San Francisco’s On the Same Page book
Thanks to the San Francisco Public Library for its pick of January/February, 2014. : http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1013774001