(Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a 4-part health care series. You can access Part 2 on how the U.S. health care system discriminates against the poor here; and Part 3 on the growing mental health crisis here; and Part 4 on health, communities, and the role of the church here.
Dr. Victoria Sweet is the author of God’s Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine (Riverhead Books, 2012). She is a woman deeply influenced by Hildegard von Bingen, the medieval saint who the Pope recently named a Doctor of the Church for her teaching of theology and practice of natural science and music.
