Contemplating Disease – Part 7 – Shijo Kingo and Managing Illness – September
In Chih-I’s time, and in fact for most of the time humans have been around until more recent times, the idea of living with long term illness didn’t exist much. You either recovered or you died in most cases. With the advances of modern medicine people are living longer, dying at later ages, and living with illnesses that would previously meant death. This is a wonderful benefit of modern medical science. We have much to…