Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (998 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594633592 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sweet reveals a deep spirituality and unsentimental compassion.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “A most important book that raises fundamental questions about the nature of medicine in our time. Praise for God's Hotel:“Transcendent readable chapters go down like restorative sips of cool water, and its hard-core subversion cheers like a shot of gin God’s Hotel is a tour de force.” —The New York Times “A radical and inspiring alternative vision of caring for the sick.” —Vanity Fair “You might not expect a book about San Francisco’s most downtrodden patients to be a page-turner,
Victoria Sweet was a physician at San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital for more than twenty years, an experience she chronicled in God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine. An associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, she is also a prizewinning historian with
Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. To do it well requires a hard-won wisdom that no algorithm can replace—that brings together “fast” and “slow” in a truly effective, efficient, sustainable, and humane way of healing. . Sweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the course of her remarkable career. A radical new understanding of how medicine is best practiced, from the award-winning author of God's Hotel Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than at their patients, and costs keep soaring, all in the ruthless pursuit of e