Science has created so many artificial parts like hearts, knees and other joints, insulin pumps, eye lenses; even I have a metal rod inside my leg. More and more parts can be replaced every day, but are we merely the sum of our parts or are we more?
The news is loaded with stories addressing the cost of health care and its increasing burden on government, business and individuals. Numerous solutions have been suggested but none seem to have the answer.
Most people naturally assume that health and disease are opposites. If you are healthy, you have no diseases and if you have a disease, you are not healthy. That is not necessarily true.
Why is it that some people seem to be able to go like the Energizer bunny and others can’t drag themselves out of bed in the morning?