God's Hotel
San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the HAatel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves-qanyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard timesq 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 qhealth care facility, q revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for body and soul.disingenuous when he portrayed Mr. Charles to the supervisors as aa psychiatric patient Laguna Honda didna#39;t feel ... Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Statement of Deficiencies and Plan of Correction for Laguna Honda Hospitalanbsp;...
| Title | : | God's Hotel |
| Author | : | Victoria Sweet |
| Publisher | : | Penguin - 2012-04-26 |
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