God's Hotel by Victoria Sweet

(read aloud)

This puts into words so eloquently many of my thoughts and experiences of a career in medicine, and I presume the experience of many of my colleagues, particularly those in primary care and non-procedural practices.

Efficiency has been a goal that has had unintended consequences.

She talks of the value of listening, of making the diagnosis, but most of all finding that part of a person that is beyond imaging, measuring, and testing. She is the doctor you want to have in your last days or when everyone has given up on you.