God's hotel a doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine

"San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-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 exten...

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Main Author: Sweet, Victoria
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
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