Catastrophes, Epidemics, and Neglected Diseases
Title | Catastrophes, Epidemics, and Neglected Diseases PDF eBook |
Author | Frank William Blaisdell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | County hospitals |
ISBN | 9780940471603 |
The San Francisco Hospital
Title | The San Francisco Hospital PDF eBook |
Author | William Charles Hassler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | County hospitals |
ISBN |
The Transformation of San Francisco General Hospital Into a Community Hospital
Title | The Transformation of San Francisco General Hospital Into a Community Hospital PDF eBook |
Author | San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors. Study Committee on the Operation of the San Francisco General Hospital. Coordinating Council |
Publisher | |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1973 |
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God's Hotel
Title | God's Hotel PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Sweet |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2013-04-02 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1594486549 |
Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now! 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 Hôtel-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 extended medical care—ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years. Laguna Honda, relatively low-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. God’s Hotel 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 the body and the soul.
Final Plan to Transform San Francisco General Hospital Into a Community Hospital
Title | Final Plan to Transform San Francisco General Hospital Into a Community Hospital PDF eBook |
Author | San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors. Study Committee on the Operation of the San Francisco General Hospital. Coordinating Council |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Community health services |
ISBN |
San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center Collection
Title | San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center Collection PDF eBook |
Author | San Francisco (Calif.). Art Commission |
Publisher | |
Pages | 69 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Survey of the Hospital and Other Health Facilities of San Francisco, California
Title | Survey of the Hospital and Other Health Facilities of San Francisco, California PDF eBook |
Author | San Francisco Committee on Hospitals and Health Facilities |
Publisher | |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1952* |
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