BAD MEDICINE
"Bad Medicine" as you all know, is a seven-single released by an American rock band called Bon Jovi, formed in 1983, but we not going to discuss them. In this context "bad medicine" refers to modern day medicine that encompass medical syringes, medical drips, pharmaeuticals pills, capsules, plasters, nuclear medicine, dialysis, stints, ointments and creams, open heart surgery, ulcer medication and the list goes on.
Modern day medicine is roughly a 100 years old because the 19th century was a period of scientific discovery and invention and epidemiology. By the 20th century, old ideas about infectious disease was slowly supplanted by virology and bacteriology. Advances in microbiology and microorganisms identification leapfrogged with the invention of the microscope.
Modern medicine is predominantly used by humans for personal use, prescribed by doctors, surgeons, dentists, pharmacist and veterinarians in the case animals. However, each and ever medicine / medication has side effects. Some mild, some severe and some even lethal if not used in accordance to medical advice.
The pharmaceutical associations base the lethality of medication on a principal called the LD50 - meaning lethal dose 50%. It implies that if a 1gram of such meds are fatal to humans a 50% dose needs to be administered to a rodent to check its efficacy. If the rodent dies from this dose, such medication would then be registered as a scheduled drug and dispensing thereof can be controlled.
