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Healthcare, and the concept of modern medicine, is nothing but a benefit to a modern society. We’ve learned to keep our bodies, and minds, in near peak physical condition by the judicious use of technology and medicine where appropriate. It isn’t simply a matter of luck or chance, either, that our world has come so much to rely on modern medical technology. For a long time throughout history, in fact most of history, medicine was little more than a superstitious effort to try and make sense of problems and ailments in the body that were beyond anyone’s true understanding. For example, take the idea of the humors, a concept that started off in ancient Greece and moved on to influence much of western medical thought for an off and on intervening ten centuries. It was based on a rather quasi mystical understanding of the body and the various spirits and powers that lived within it and influenced