Modern medicine - still the third leading cause of death

[Iroscato]

Its your thread, you define it

OK, then alternative approaches are medicine.

.... so you don't take any medicine?

Yes, I do, as you're letting me define it.

If you're referring to prescription drugs, no, I'm not currently taking any. Last time I did was a few years ago, when I took some antibiotics for what was likely a bacterial lung infection.

And a few hundred years ago, such an infection might've quite easily killed you or made your dick (the one between your legs, not the one currently sprouting from your forehead) fall off or some other horrible, ungood thing happen.
I would have likely died at birth centuries ago due to problems I had with an infected umbilical cord - but thanks to medical science, here I stand today, blessed with the ability to name thee a dickhead ^_^