Hospitals are a perfect example of bureaucracy, but they also demonstrate how love and care can, and need to, be an integral part of the process. Valeopardo/pixabay.com
I recently spent two days at my wife’s side or waiting nearby as she underwent various tests and then an appendectomy. (Spoiler alert: All went well.) While waiting, I came across a comment in the book by James Kalb that I was reading. For obvious reasons, it leaped off the page at me.
Paul Adams
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Paul Adams is a professor emeritus of social work at the University of Hawai‘i, and was professor and associate dean of academic affairs at Case Western Reserve University. He is the co-author of "Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is," and has written extensively on social welfare policy and professional and virtue ethics.
