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Sat 03 Mar 2007Medicine, machines and the mindHealth:Is social isolation just as hazardous to health as smoking or obesity? And is modern medicine mistaken to ignore personal details of a patient's life?After a patronising comment about her show by Kevin Costner on television, Madonna mimed vomiting. Everyone knew what she meant: she was vomiting up Costner and his remark. Some emotional experiences can quite simply make us sick, physically ill.