This Book is Sick
This Book is Sick
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Welcome to book club! On the “This Book is Sick” podcast, we connect medicine and the humanities by exploring memoirs, novels, and nonfiction related to healthcare, illness, and the human experience.
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The podcast primarily focuses on the intersection of literature and healthcare, exploring themes such as the human experience with illness, the impact of cognitive biases in medicine, and the role of artificial intelligence in healthcare solutions, with episodes discussing specific books like Random Acts of Medicine, which highlights chance events in healthcare.
Welcome to book club! On the “This Book is Sick!” podcast, we connect medicine and the humanities by exploring memoirs, novels, and nonfiction related to healthcare, illness, and the human experience.
In this episode, we discuss God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Dr. Victoria Sweet. We also welcome special guest Dr. Samuel Porter, a hospitalist at the University of Colorado. God’s Hotel is a memoir chronicling Dr. Sweet’s transformative experience at Laguna Honda Hospital—San Francisco’s last almshouse. Tune in as we consider what modern healthcare can learn from a slower style of medicine and as Dr. Porter shares his insights regarding systems level care.
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