Noun
bad medicine (uncountable)
(figuratively) Any advice or treatment that has no value or exacerbates the problem.
Many economists believe that trying to spend your way out of a recession is bad medicine.
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses? Edmund H. North
My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen. Jonny Lang
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics. Mark Hyman, M.D.
"Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed," by Christopher Wanjek, p. 5 (John Wiley & Sons, 2003) Although Caesarean sections were performed in Roman times, no classical source records a mother surviving such a delivery. Source: Internet
Now happily in remission, the 31-year-old Dusenbery is about to begin a coast-to-coast tour for her new book, “Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick.” Source: Internet
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, 2002 RobertWhitaker Inadequacy of clinical interviews used to diagnose 'diseases' An etiology common to bipolar spectrum disorders has not been identified. Source: Internet