Slow Medicine: An Interview With Victoria Sweet

Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco was, as far as anyone knows, the last almshouse, or Hotel-Dieu, in this country -- a hospital for the sick and poor. Dr. Victoria Sweet took a position there, a place where she and other physicians could practice a different kind of medicine -- an intimate, intuitive, deeply skilled medicine focused on continuing care and observation of the patient, minus computers. This powerful interview shares more.

http://www.dailygood.org/story/848/slow-medicine-an-interview-with-victoria-sweet-mary-stein/