God's Hotel
by Victoria Sweet
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90%
Critic Reviews: 16
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Reader Ratings: 82
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Synopsis
A piercingly insightful narrative about a last-of-its-kind hospital and its remarkable patients.San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-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... more
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- All Critics: 16
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San Francisco Chronicle | 20 May 2012
With its colorful cast of characters battling the tide of history, "God's Hotel" is a remarkable journey into the essence of medicine.
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The New York Times | 28 May 2012
Others have written about the relationship between time and medical care with similar eloquence and urgency, but the centuries of perspective that Dr. Sweet brings infuse the point with unforgettable clarity.
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Boston.com | 22 Apr 2012
In this beautiful and unique book, she shares that gift with us generously.
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God’s Hotel by Victoria Sweet is at its core testimonial to the body’s remarkable ability to heal when it is provided with the simple ingredients of time and care.
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Star Tribune | 16 Jun 2012
In this often lyrical book, Dr. Sweet reveals a deep spirituality and unsentimental compassion.
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47 White Buffalo's Blog | 26 Jun 2012
You will learn a great deal just from the patients she encounters and cares for at Laguna Honda.
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Energy Bulletin | 27 Jun 2012
She is articulate, smart and spare in her descriptions, but she manages to describe her own abilities of observation and doctoring with such humility that she gives the impression of being merely a vessel for divine inspiration.
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DC Spotlight Newspaper | 1 Jun 2012
The message of her book is clear: we need more time for doctors and nurses to interact with patients in our hospitals and we need to view Doctors Diet, Quiet, and Merryman as essential to our health as much as pills and procedures.
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Jeni Read a Book | 9 May 2012
Victoria Sweet paints a picture of what it was like to work at one of the last almshouses, but more importantly, she paints a picture of what a doctor can do when allowed to practice medicine the way they wanted to.
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The Book Browser | 21 Apr 2012
In this beautiful and unique book, she shares that gift with us generously.
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Luxury Reading | 25 Apr 2012
God’s Hotel not only shows the developing of a doctor’s character over a 20 year span, but also the HMO take over of the hospital where she practiced, and how inefficient their efficiency plans often are.
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BookPage | 1 May 2012
Yet God's Hotel also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the politics and policies of the 21st-century healthcare model and its sometimes cold, clinical approach to providing care while keeping a constant eye on the bottom line.
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Publishers Weekly | 7 Nov 2011
Sweet’s tales of her hospital, patients, colleagues, and herself offer a fresh linking of medicine past and present.
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Dallas News | 29 May 2012
With this humane and thoughtful work, Sweet joins physician-authors such as Oliver Sacks, Jerome Groopman and Abraham Verghese, whose medical expertise is joined to a philosophical cast of mind and writer’s aesthetic.
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The New York Times | 28 May 2012
Others have written about the relationship between time and medical care with similar eloquence and urgency, but the centuries of perspective that Dr. Sweet brings infuse the point with unforgettable clarity.
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