How successful is modern medicine?

Conclusion: Modern medicine as we have studied it is successful. Avoidable death rate shows a steep uninterrupted decline over the last 50 years while unavoidable death rate shows only small decreases. Cost as per cent of GDP has increased only moderately.

What illnesses have no cure?

Some of the common medical conditions of people requiring care at the end of life include:

• cancer.
• dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.
• advanced lung, heart, kidney and liver disease.
• stroke and other neurological diseases, including motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis.
• Huntington’s disease.
• muscular dystrophy.

How effective are medical treatments?

According to the analysis, which analyzed evidence for thousands of medical treatments, there was “evidence of some benefit” for slightly more than 40\% of the treatments, while about 3\% were ineffective or harmful, and 6\% were found to be unlikely to be helpful.”

Is modern medicine more effective than traditional medicine?

and also like it, the method is debatable Traditional Medicine considered less effective than its counterpart. On the other hand, Modern Medicine considered more effective since the approach and method they use are more specific in diagnosing diseases and how to treat them.

Why did the doctor say that the medicines might not work?

It is said because medicines have many side affects which might instead of curing it will make it worst. It depends on the person’s health how he is(weak, strong, active, passive) and how he recovers. Many medicines might not work due to a persons mental health and physical body.

How much of medicine is actually evidence based?

Advising patients on decision making with input based on evidence should be the minimum for primary care physicians. But according to a new BMJ study, only 18 percent of clinical recommendations are based on high-quality evidence.