{"product_id":"gods-hotel-a-doctor-a-hospital-and-a-pilgrimage-to-the-heart-of-medicine-1594488436","title":"God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1594488436\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sweet, Victoria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Paul Kalanithis When Breath Becomes Air, a medical page-turner that traces one doctors remarkable journey to the essence of medicine (The San Francisco Chronicle).San Franciscos Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Htel-Dieu (Gods 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, relatively low-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. Gods 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 the body and the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eFor readers of Paul Kalanithi\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51321829654816,"sku":"NEW1594488436","price":36.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/41YWGHcCL1L.jpg?v=1773103809","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/gods-hotel-a-doctor-a-hospital-and-a-pilgrimage-to-the-heart-of-medicine-1594488436","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}