Editing Deus ex machina (section)

==In medicine==
In [[medicine]], the phrase is often used for supposedly "magical remedies" which are not likely to work in practice. For example, in the [[COVID-19 pandemic|2020 COVID-19 outbreak]], when [[double lung transplantation]] for terminal COVID-19 patients was suggested, it was immediately denounced as a ''deus ex machina.''<ref name="Wadowski_2020">{{cite journal | vauthors = Wadowski BJ, Bacchetta M, Kon ZN| title = Beware the Deus Ex Machina of COVID-19 | journal = Ann Thorac Surg  | volume = 110 | issue = 6 | pages = 1787–1788| date = December 2020 | doi =10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.08.001 |pmid = 32871108 | pmc= 7455797}}</ref> In 2006, when electronic fetal heart monitoring was being touted as a preventive measure for [[cerebral palsy]], ''[[The New England Journal of Medicine]]'' denounced it as ''deus ex machina''.<ref name="Greene_2006">{{cite journal | vauthors = Greene MF| title = Obstetricians still await a deus ex machina | journal = N Engl J Med | volume = 355 | issue = 21 | pages = 2247–2248| date = November 2006 | doi =10.1056/NEJMe068176 |pmid = 17124023 | pmc= }}</ref>