Riverhead Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b><b>Look out for Victoria Sweet's new book?? SLOW MEDICINE?? coming September 2017</b><br><br>For readers of Paul Kalanithi??s <i>When Breath Becomes Air?? </i>a medical ??page-turner?? that traces one doctor??s ??remarkable journey to the essence of medicine?? (<i>The San Francisco Chronicle</i>). <br><br></b>San Francisco??s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country?? a descendant of the H?tel-Dieu (God??s hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians?? professors an