Doctors are often lauded as miracle workers, but even the most skilled have patients they can’t help. Demetrios Leontaris keeps a picture of one on his cell phone organizer.

Tapping at his keypad, he smiles as he pulls up a picture of the ill-fated patient: an iPod Nano left badly bruised after being run over by a car. While it still played, attempting to repair the casing could have broken the device.