Oh dear. What else should we offer? A short course in voodoo, perhaps, with a prerequisite of bone-pointing?
Medicine has long been the subject of vigorous debate about the control of social resources. The formation of modern medicine in the mid-19th century was itself the result of a century long fight for legitimacy among many contending groups. At that time, those who won out – the physicians, the surgeons and those who prepared and sold medicines – had no more evidence to support them than those they defeated. They succeeded on the basis of politics, not of evidence.
“Medicine” encompasses both medical Science and medical Lore.
Only one of these can safely and reliably treat health problems.
I will trust my life to treatments based on empirically based observations and empirically verifiable hypotheses.