Not sure Farma is doing the right thing by introducing modern drugs to a pre-modern world?

Sep 5, 2022 6:11 AM

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Have been enjoying the series, and it has been fun to be honest.

However, I have a problem and the issue is...antibiotics.

While Farma is doing a lot of good really, the problem is, he is introducing modern drugs to a pre-modern world. A world that has no understanding of germ theory, no understanding of bacteria, no understanding of medical stuff.

Usually such scenarios end badly. I'm even wondering about the potential for misuse, and resistance to antibiotics...

That's what makes me uneasy about the series.

Sep 5, 2022 6:32 AM

Piromysl

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It will work out if antibiotics would be heavily regulated.

Sep 5, 2022 6:47 AM

vibininthefields

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as long as Falma is the only one who's able to produce and the ones dispensing are taught by him (assuming that the entire procedure where he calculates the exact dosage for each patient is followed by his subordinates) there wouldn't be an AMR issue.

Sep 5, 2022 6:50 AM

UltimateKai

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He is teaching them about bacteria slowly, plus he will probably build antibiotics at the lowest level now (not a med student but yknow what I mean) and allow natural selection to take care of others.

Sep 5, 2022 7:43 AM

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That’s hilarious because I had the exact same thought while watching this episode, like it’s good to be able to have the medicine but without all of the other modern health and hygiene practices we have today they’re going to be overused like crazy

Sep 5, 2022 8:50 AM

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yea and at the same time , he is literally changing to course of history so medicine wont advance like it is supposed to, which is kind of weird

Sep 5, 2022 9:07 AM

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Nigerianotaku40 said:
Have been enjoying the series, and it has been fun to be honest.

However, I have a problem and the issue is...antibiotics.

While Farma is doing a lot of good really, the problem is, he is introducing modern drugs to a pre-modern world. A world that has no understanding of germ theory, no understanding of bacteria, no understanding of medical stuff.

Usually such scenarios end badly. I'm even wondering about the potential for misuse, and resistance to antibiotics...

That's what makes me uneasy about the series.

That’s a very good point and how the show handles that double edged sword can be very interesting. My worry is this new cheesy villain. I knew he was coming from the op but I hope the show doesn’t fall off a cliff from it.

Sep 5, 2022 9:55 AM

Triggerfish124

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The latest episode shows this anime doesnt take into account anything except making Farma look good.

Sep 5, 2022 10:57 AM

crystalsamurai

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resistant bugs take years of Inconsistent and incomplete antibiotic use to come about. their little operation will not be able to make enough meds and only he can make them so no worries there.

Sep 5, 2022 12:03 PM

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Vampdc

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True. He might help them improve their medicine. Even more since magic exist in this world.

Sep 5, 2022 12:35 PM

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Altadena

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Definitely like how has the og medicine guild NOT tried to portray farma as a villain/witch for introducing the idea of bacteria? Their WHOLE idea of illness is backed by evil spirits possessing the body & need to be exorcised with priests and "medicinal" herbs, even if Pharma's backed by the queen I think there would at least be a large percentage of the population who would disregard Pharma's new methods. and can we talk about the elephant in the room how will Pharma even be able to keep up with the demand for the black plague medicine? Is there a daily limit on his powers & does it affect him physically?

Sep 5, 2022 2:16 PM

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At this point, Farma is the only one who can create these complex compounds, and literally the only people who get them are the ones that he sees personally. Because of this, I don't think that there will be much of any issue with people trying to abuse these drugs. Only when these drugs are readily available would we start to see a problem.

And even then, these people don't understand how medication works. They only understand it as a magical remedy that wards off evil spirits overtaking ones body. The thought that overdosing medicines to get an effect other than what Farma says it does hasn't even crossed these people's minds.

Sep 5, 2022 2:40 PM

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EvilGrin

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imagine creating poison and drugs out of plain air. Drug trafficking go brrrr

Sep 6, 2022 3:11 AM

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SSL443

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So much of the show is unrealistic that I think this is a minor issue in the scheme of things.

The notion that people would accept radical new knowledge so readily is probably the most unbelievable aspect of the show. History teaches us that it takes decades for these kinds of paradigm shifts to occur.

This anime paints a rosy picture of modern medicine where drugs always work, and with no side effects to boot. This quickly convinces the masses that the claims about the drugs are true. In reality, the majority would remain skeptical and cling to the established treatments.

Sep 6, 2022 11:26 PM

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LMAO, you're worried about antibiotic resistance in a world where people have been and still are dying in droves of easily preventable bacterial infections? And in a world where as far as we know the process of manufacturing such antibiotics is literally in the hands of a single person? Relax bro. The dude's also a literal genius who knows literally everything there is about medicine, so I'm pretty sure he'll prescribe responsibly anyways.

Sep 6, 2022 11:32 PM

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Parataxicalis

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SSL443 said:
So much of the show is unrealistic that I think this is a minor issue in the scheme of things.

The notion that people would accept radical new knowledge so readily is probably the most unbelievable aspect of the show. History teaches us that it takes decades for these kinds of paradigm shifts to occur.

This anime paints a rosy picture of modern medicine where drugs always work, and with no side effects to boot. This quickly convinces the masses that the claims about the drugs are true. In reality, the majority would remain skeptical and cling to the established treatments.

A lot of things in this show are poorly researched or are just flat out ridiculous. Especially when it comes to (literal god) Farma; he's a complete fucking mess lol.

ParataxicalisSep 6, 2022 11:36 PM

Sep 7, 2022 4:06 AM

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Jasomas

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That's a fair point, really, but I would still do the same. Having the ability to save people from all these obsolete diseases and not doing it would be completely opposite to MC's philosophy of life. You have to take into consideration that the sole purpose that he became a doctor would be that he couldn't save his sister irl.

Sep 7, 2022 10:47 PM

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RedCobra75

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in novel he did teaching about this, its cut content.

the problem here you should be know falma not the only doctor here. the father already give a hint, medicine can be cure also for evil stuff, aka become poison or bio weapon.

and today plaque was ( black plaque that use for bio weapon from certain evil doctor that know falma father ), that not explain in anime aka cut content again.

falma world is mid advance some of the doctor know some dangerous chemical and element and those doctor not a good doctor in falma world, they don't have moral and do human experiment.

we are talking about evil doctor that have no moral for human experiment was alot in falma world and the main villains in falma world is doctors.

RedCobra75Sep 10, 2022 10:19 PM

Sep 19, 2022 1:35 PM

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Pietru

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It's a bit weird how they didn't do an entire witch hunt on the guy

"Only one with the courage
to shoulder the burden
of their own fate can
be called a hero.."

Sep 20, 2022 6:38 AM

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komic

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it a world where they use magic and have mythical beasts mate. I don't think it really matters that much.

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Oct 11, 2022 1:34 AM

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SofiaBulga

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Let's all pray really, really hard that he isn't in the "Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road" universe. Because if he is, I don't care if he's guardian deity or not, he's getting snuffed.

Oct 16, 2022 2:18 PM

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See I was thinking one of the problems was that he is the only one that can make the drugs so everyone has a 'golden age' of medicine while he is alive but the second he dies so does a lot of the medicines he makes. I think even if he somehow manages to create the infrastructure and methods for them to make these medicines there is only so much he can do while he is alive. People can dedicate their whole lives to solving a single disease (he did) but they still can't solve it. Plus a lot of the theory isn't being discovered in the right order so when resistance does start happening everyone will be back to the beginning.

He literally doesn't have enough time to write down everything he knows about medicine let alone teach people proper methods and come up with ways they can synthesise drugs.

TBH this is why I try not to think too hard about the concept, it doesn't end well but it's nice if you just follow along.

Oct 28, 2022 7:56 PM

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Jinxxed0

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I've only watched the dub so not sure about the sub, but they explained it pretty well that he's been teaching everyone about germs and hygiene. It's implied that he's taking the the needed steps to make sure everyone will eventually be brought up to modern medicine over a long period of time and not all at once.

I would imagine that by the time he's 50+ their world will be about where our world is and they'll try to advance like how we're trying to advance. Because the real world is also going to face problems with antibiotics not working. It's already happened with a few people around the world. In some parts of the world, when people get a cough, they just start popping anti-biotics like it's candy. One of the biggest cases was in China. A person was resistant to the most powerful antibiotics in existence.

Nov 12, 2022 12:05 AM

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Pietru said:
It's a bit weird how they didn't do an entire witch hunt on the guy

but they did. then the priests got hurt and he healed them so that made them on his side. now the temple/church is on his side

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