{"product_id":"2940170824885","title":"God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine","description":"San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the \u003ci\u003ehôtel-Dieu\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaguna 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. \u003ci\u003eGod's Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e 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 body and soul.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47160918245616,"sku":"2940170824885","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170824885_p0.jpg?v=1763718776","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170824885","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}