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Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
"Give this robotic therapist a condition to cure and it did - always - even if it had to convert itself into a Typhoid Mary to do so!"

('Bad Medicine' by Robert Shockley)
Very funny story about a man with homicidal intentions who buys a General Motors mechanotherapist for help. Unfortunately, he winds up with something he does not expect. This short story is available on the Internet; see Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley. Select
an invention:
Mechanotherapy A mechanism or device-based therapy that cures (or palliates) alcoholism.
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