While is worth discussing the number of things that could go wrong with us, it's important to remember that with the advances in science and the understanding of the human body there is treatment for just about everything. And his with this understanding of the human body and our own natural tendencies that medicine jumps to the fore. There are a number of medicines currently available to treat almost any ailment two and threefold. In his with these medicines that we all try to gain a deeper understanding of the human body and what is inside.

Medicines are treatment. There is seldom a disease out there that doesn't have some sort of treatment available for it. And when there is, there's pandemonium. Diseases with no medicine is something that scares people like heck. And why shouldn't it? We've come so far in understanding what is and what is not that we feel as a right of a civilized society for there not to be any sort of pandemic that could wipe us out unbeknownst to us. We feel entitled. It may sound ugly but that's the truth.

So for medicine, there is over-the-counter medicines which is much more inexpensive and prescription medicine which if you don't have health insurance can cost you a lot of money. Over-the-counter medicine is stuff like cough syrup and allergy medication and sleep aids and sleep inhibitors. While some of this stuff is designed to make you feel better, much of it, when taken in excess or against the advice of your doctor or against the advice of common sense can make you feel rotten and leads to addiction.

For prescription medication there is a caveat: you need a prescription to get the medicine. Even if it's something very simple like a birth control pill or an allergy medicine is a little bit more powerful than an over-the-counter allergy medication you still need the prescription.

Cheap medicine and exists nowhere. With the rise in the cost of health care in the last hundred years it has gotten a little bit ridiculous. I can understand on the one side the doctors want to get paid in to one a be held liable if somebody is under their care and pays the big one, but at the same time it seems that the exorbitant fees and it's accessed only by people with the biggest and best HMOs leaves many of us scraping just to see their doctor.