 Consult with a primary care physician when feeling ill. Perhaps they send you to a medical lab that will take a blood sample to run a biochemical analysis. After the results arrive, consult with a physician specialist whose expertise is the particular bodily organ or system where the ailment is localized. The specialist prescribes a drug that has been mass-produced in a factory, after a biology laboratory extracted the active ingredient from a natural source, or perhaps synthesized it from scratch. The drug’s efficacy has been proven by testing the drug experimentally on two groups with the relevant disease, randomly sorted into an experimental group and a control group so that the drug’s measurable bodily effects could be scrutinized and counted. This is biomedicine. It has quickly grown to be so pervasive around the globe that it is difficult to characterize biomedicine.