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/^t/The tremendous achievements in science and technology have entered the world of modern medicine. Sophisticated equipment unables doctors to save the lives of patients who would have died if they had lived a few decades ago. Nowadays prematurely born babies survive thanks to incubators and people with kidney defects are kept alive thanks to machines that clean their blood. A logical temptation, though, would be to attribute all successes in medicine to science and technology. This however wouldn't be true for a very simple reason: doctors are not only technicians. Their patients are also complicated much more than machines.