The art of doing “nothing”

I met Mr. Stevens* in March of this year. His left leg had just been amputated below the knee two weeks before his admission to Netcare Rehabilitation Hospital. He was 63-years-old man with a long list of medical co-morbidities – including diabetes mellitus II, hypertension, hypoparathyroidism, renal failure, ischaemic heart disease and most recently peripheral…