God's Hotel Free

Author: Victoria Sweet
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B005GSZHYU
Category: Medical

God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

A medical "page-turner" that traces one doctor's "remarkable journey to the essence of medicine" (The San Francisco Chronicle). Download God's Hotel medical books for free.
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San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the HAtel-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.
AAAA Laguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, Get God's Hotel our bestseller medical books.

God's Hotel Free

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San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the HAtel-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.
AAAA Laguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished r />
San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the HAtel-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.
AAAA Laguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually,

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