Donate

Audio Archive

Episodes by Date

Calendar is loading...
Loading...

Be a Part of Forum

KQED BOOKS

Girl reading on a train platform. Credit: Mo Riza/Flickr

All of KQED's book coverage and author interviews in one place.

Follow us on Twitter

Twitter bird in blue

Stay updated on show topics, relevant articles, and easily submit your questions.

BOOKS THAT MATTER


KQED Books wants to know what book left its mark on you.

KQED e-Newsletters

Newsletters

Get regular updates on great programs and events

Please leave this field empty

More from KQED

Forum

Wed, Apr 25, 2012 -- 10:00 AM

Victoria Sweet: 'God's Hotel'


Download audio (MP3)

Physician Victoria Sweet's new memoir "God's Hotel" details her experience working at the unique Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, which cares for hundreds of elderly and disabled adults. Sweet has been working at the hospital for more than 20 years.

Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:

  • Victoria Sweet, author, associate clinical professor of medicine at UCSF and a physician at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital

More info:

Her book describes not only her experiences with patients, but expounds on the practice of "slow" medicine, which gives doctors that precious commodity often missing in today's health care system: time.

Sponsored by

Sponsored by