"Increased use of technology is a blessing and a curse."

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"Increased use of technology is a blessing and a curse."

I think that this statement is true. Modern surgery has both its good points and its bad points. However, I think that the good points outweigh the bad points.

Surgery and medicine has come a long way since prehistoric times. Indeed, even when compared to standards of the Renaissance, the improvements are remarkable. New discoveries in the last few centuries, mainly in anaesthetics and antiseptics, have ensured that complicated surgery can be carried out, with a very high chance of the patient surviving. People can now have heart transplants, kidney transplants, lung transplants etc. Almost any organ in the body can now be transplanted. In fact, some people have even had arm or leg transplants!

This can lead to problems. In the future, there may be cases where people are walking around with two different arms from two different people, the same for the legs, with someone else's heart and lungs. They will be a living model of Frankenstein's monster. This may sound funny, but it is not. I think that it is fine for doctors to perform transplants if the