What’s the difference between being at 90% and 85%? For Irene van Dyk it makes her one of the greatest netballers of all time. But what does this have to do with you?
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.