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San Francisco's Laguna Honda Clinic is the previous almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Age groups. Ballet dancers and rock and roll musicians, professors and thieves - "anyone who experienced dropped, or, often, leapt, onto crisis" and needed prolonged health care - ended up here. So does Victoria Nice, who came for just two months and stayed for 20 years. Laguna Honda, lower-tech but human-paced, provided Sweet the opportunity to practice some sort of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Slowly and gradually, the place altered just how she grasped her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her astonishing patients evoked an older idea of the body as a garden to be tended. God's Hotel says their account and the story of a healthcare facility itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, motivated to turn it into today's "healthcare facility", revealed its shocking truths about the essence, cost, and value of looking after body and heart.
