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/^t/Besides being nonjudgmental, computers are less biassed, if at all, than doctors. A man suffering from, for instance, prostate cancer may get radically different pieces of advice from three different urologists. The reason why there are such considerable differences among doctors is the fact that like all people, doctors tend to be subjective and are influenced by a number of factors, very frequently irrational and personal, that make them prefer one treatment to another. But by sitting down with one of those medical software programs, one is sure to obtain an impartial and objective assessment of one's case, not to mention the fact that having answered a series of questions asked by computer you are provided with a list of possible treatments you may follow, together with a detailed register of good and bad sides of each treatment.