The scanners took work away from the specialists and user-friendly computers were dashing off legible scripts, conducting telehealth consultations, leading group therapy teams and performing telesurgery. 'The healing hand' has been reduced to digits on a keyboard and the doctor to a handmaiden of the computer-patient relationship.

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Making a baby for oneself is easy nowadays. The industry has gone offshore and Third World wombs are cheap to hire, so surrogate farms are growing babies like cabbages. "Families" can be whatever the latest whim or fashion decrees