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(and financed), not denigrated as poor cousins of the sciences. Algorithmic methods of decision making (all of which are based on unspoken and unexamined materialist assumptions about the nature of humans and thus the nature of human dilemmas) must be interrogated and at least supplemented by other approaches. A clear distinction must be drawn between the accumulation of information and the growth of wisdom. Patients should be seen as psychosomatic unities, inextricably enmeshed in, and defined by, their relationships. It would help indeed, if clinicians saw patients, rather than problems, or organs, or genes. The religious traditions at least have the virtue of talking about whole humans. To see and talk about such big things as humans, you have to be wise.