Chances are that many of you reading this are able to do so in part thanks to some kind of medical intervention. Perhaps directly, for instance by wearing prescription glasses. Or indirectly, because the marvels of medical technology have saved your life in the past. Perhaps you were able to survive cancer. Or you might be totally oblivious to the fact that without modern antibiotics, diagnostics and therapeutic interventions at some turning point in your health, you likely wouldn’t be here today. This is not far-fetched. Until very recently in the human story, infections and maladies that are today fairly easy to overcome, like dysentery, scurvy or the flu, killed millions upon millions of people.