This is the reason why I'm liking a combinatio of Eastern/Western medicine better.
Western medicine has it's greatest flaw in the fact that the focus is to eliminate the symptoms of sickness (which is literally the Western definition of health, is the absence of symptoms of sickness). So Western medicine never actually cures anything, but practically gives you a bandaid and covinves you that you're ok. This leads to an overdependence on drugs, and eventually the body resists those drugs and new ones have to be developed. The cycle continues.
Eastern Medicine on the other hand, defines health as the absence of sickness. If you're not sick, you don't show symptoms, and the sickness doessn't continue to recur. Eastern medicine addresses the core of the problem and not the results of it. A great deal of Eastern medicine is the focus on preventing sickness. Which, by and far, is always going to be cheaper than the cure.
However, Western medicine has advanced surgical procedure to resolve complicated health problems, whereas Eastern medicine does not depend on this radical recourse as much. Yet Western medicine has (generally) failed to assist the general population in both preventing, curing, and assisting recovery of the patient. This is where Eastern medicine rules the playing field.
Unfortunately I'm running out of time to write this post so if I can I'll write a follow-up later.
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