@article{436480,
      recid = {436480},
      author = {Sweet, Victoria.},
      title = {God's hotel : a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to  the heart of medicine /},
      publisher = {Riverhead Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {372 p. ;},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/436480},
}