Modern medicine is hamstrung by nearly universal application of "evidence based medicine" - which started as a commendable approach but has been twisted into: "

Modern medicine is hamstrung by nearly universal application of "evidence based medicine" - which started as a commendable approach but has been twisted into: "we diagnose A and then find therapy B with the most institutional buy-in, and if that fails or is inapplicable, we call the patient crazy and/or employ other tactics to make the patient go away". Especially in the age of complex and poorly understood chronic illness, doctors should guide the patient through a process of "clinical experimentation" while also counseling them to improve environmental and lifestyle factors. But western health systems are laughably underresourced for this. So they remain competent when it comes to cut-and-dry situations, and misery-makers elsewhere.