[evilbutterfly]

I would say that we are severely overmedicated, but trying to say medicine is stopping evolution is...well...not right, as Guido pointed out. What it does instead is kill our immune system kinda. If we're so used to a super clean environment because of antibiotics killing all microorganisms around us, our immune systems won't have a chance to build up immunities. As a personal example, I used to never complain when I was sick. I ended up getting a lot of triple infections as a youngster to the point where if I had continued to not complain, I would have been hospitalized and near death. Because of this, my immune system has built up a lot, just on the off chance that I'm an idiot and don't go to the doctor. Yeah, I was severely ill quite a bit as a kid, but now I rarely get sick, and when I do I recover extremely quickly while people around me stay sick for long periods of time. Hell, I drink/eat after sick siblings/parents and don't catch anything because of my built up immune system. It's great.

But I digress. Point is, the more we let medicine take over for our immune system, the lazier/weaker it gets, which will screw us over if we can't acquire medicine anymore. I think medication should be more of a last ditch effort than it is now, and we should let our immune systems take over a lot more than they do now.