Exactly! I can't say anything's impossible, in this world, but there's very few things that could end with one of our devices uplifted.

[A freak accident with plasma? But Otto's quietly taken steps against that, for all he knows that what happened to him is supremely unlikely to happen to anyone else. There's other things, though - magic, confluences.]

It isn't worth withholding medical care for people based on that tiny chance.