Basic logic dictates that after medical science has found cures for 90% of diseases, you will tend to notice the remaining 10%. "Modern medicine", as you feel

Basic logic dictates that after medical science has found cures for 90% of diseases, you will tend to notice the remaining 10%. "Modern medicine", as you feel apt to call it, has been nothing if not spectacular successful against infectious diseases. It strikes me as implausible that the profession is somehow corrupt in a way that specifically hinders progress against chronic diseases, compared to the banal explanation that these are more difficult, and maybe that we've had less time dedicated to their study because they only appeared when people started to routinely live to old age.