{"product_id":"9781101561812","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.\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128196251888,"sku":"9781101561812","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101561812_p0.jpg?v=1763688331","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101561812","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}