There's good and bad aspects of PCs of various kinds and Macs, and sometimes things can go wrong and they can really piss you off. But the idea of doing without a computer and relying on a manual typewriter and traipsing down to the library to check stuff doesn't bear thinking of.

That's more of less how I see the relationship between the health care we've got in the UK and in most parts of Europe and in places like Canada and Australia, on the one hand, and what you currently seem to have in the States, on the other.