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

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Availability:In StockContributor:Victoria SweetAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2013-04-02Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594486548ISBN-10:1594486549UPC:9781594486548Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MedicalBook Subcategory:Medical (Incl. Patients), Essays, Health PolicySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SCMRNR0ZMD

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

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For readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, a medical "page-turner" that traces one doctor's "remarkable journey to the essence of medicine" (The San Francisco Chronicle).

San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the H tel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the...


Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9781594486548ISBN-10:1594486549UPC:9781594486548Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MedicalBook Subcategory:Medical (Incl. Patients), Essays, Health PolicySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.8598Product ID:SCMRNR0ZMD
Victoria Sweet has been a physician at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital for more than twenty years. An associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, she is also a prize-winning historian with a Ph.D. in history and social medicine.
Publisher: Riverhead Books

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Victoria Sweet

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