For a well-written interview about God’s Hotel, slow medicine, the efficiency of inefficiency, and the inefficiency of efficiency, see http://www.more.com/slow-medicine
God’s Hotel is one of Parade’s Summer Reading Picks
Plus, you get the first chapter as an excerpt! http://www.parade.com/news/2012/06/gods-hotel-excerpt.html
Interview with Silvia Camporesi
An interview with a visiting historian at my Department of History and Social Medicine at UCSF: http://anthropologyhistorysocialmedicine.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/victoria-sweet-author-of-gods-hotel-talks-about-the-role-on-the-humanities-in-the-medical-training/
New York Times Book Review
What can I say? Surely the author’s dream, a review by Abigail Zuger MD in the NYT’s Science Tuesday:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/health/29zuger.html?emc=eta1
Welcome to God’s Hotel by Alison Peters
Daily Kos picks up Obamacare and Dr. Sweet
Interview by Liz St. John, San Francisco
Interview by the BBC
Here is the link. The interview starts at 17:48 into the hour: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00qwbdp.
Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy
“When is a doctor more like a gardener?”
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/04/25/should-a-doctor-be-like-a-gardener/?mod=google_news_blog
Michael Krasny interviews Dr. S. on Forum
It was a bit nerve-wracking at first, but Michael is a great interviewer, and the call-in was especially challenging and fun: 2012-04-25b-forum.