I have been a registered nurse for over 30 years.  I am a part of the Western medical system.   But I have learned from my observations and my own personal experience that for the most part, Western medicine is very narrow minded in its approach to solving physical problems.

They think of the body as a bag of body parts and chemicals.  If you think that way, then the obvious cure would be found by using drugs or surgery.  Which is typical of Western medicine today.  This is not written as an absolute but a great majority of the time, when a person goes to see the doctor with a problem, they will leave with a prescription for a drug.

In many, many cases the drugs are not only not necessary, they can often be very harmful as well.  There are so many side effects with drugs and the more drugs you are taking, the greater the risk that the drugs will interact negatively with each other.

That is probably my greatest complaint with Western medicine.  They tend to just try to treat the symptoms instead of looking for the underlying cause of the symptoms.  I believe that is one of the reasons so few people actually get better.