Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Tag: medicine

  • Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal

    Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal

    I recently went to Salt Lake City for a family reunion. Among the relatives I saw was my only surviving grandparent, who is now 89 years old. He’s literally my oldest friend, and the oldest living human being that I know right now. His health is slowly deteriorating (he lost his driver’s license recently–which turns…

  • To be a Carer

    To be a Carer

    I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about the medical profession, and more broadly, about health. I’m not certain why, particularly since I haven’t been ill lately, and we tend usually to think of health and healers only when our body is not well, when we are in pain, when health eludes us. So I…