Dr. Sweet is an associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.She practiced medicine for twenty years at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, where she began writing. In her book, God’s Hotel: A Doctor,a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine, she lays out her evidence in stories of her patients and her hospital for some radically new ideas about medicine and healthcare in this country. In our attempts to get control of healthcare costs by privileging “efficiency,” she suggests, we’ve been headed down the wrong path. Medicine works best that is, arrives at the right diagnosis and the right treatment for the least amount of money when it is personal and face-to-face; when the doctor has enough time to do a good job, and pays attention not only to the patient but to what’s around the patient. Dr. Sweet calls this approach Slow Medicine.