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/^t/Besides, with the computer you may ask questions you would be too embarrassed and ashamed to ask a doctor. This seems to be one of main advantages of the medical care in question. It happens very often that people are ashamed of some embarrassing symptoms and they feel awkward having to reveal them to a stranger. Sometimes they hide some embarrassing symptoms, reveal them partially or simply do not visit a doctor being so paralysed by their shame. It is being observed that patients are much more comfortable talking with the computer than they are with their own doctors. As you would expect, people feel freer to detail their sex practices or drug habits when the interrogator is a machine. That is natural since computers like any other machines are nonjudgmental, which means they do not think and do not make judgements about people who consult them. That encourages people since when they suffer from some embarrassing disease and have to visit a doctor, the thing they are most afraid of is the fact they do not know what the doctor will think about them. They are afraid of doctor's sight because they feel as if they were being humiliated.