I had a lot of family in big pharma and the situation is just fucked in general for western medicine. They priortize any treatment that is profitable, and the science follows the money more than the data.

You can mostly rely on yourself for your health these days, which means diet, sleep, exercise, and staying away from drugs and alcohol. Doctors literally are lied to about medications, and are pressured to prescribe them with threat of malpractice lawsuits.

It's way worse than most people realize. Even the smart doctors are going to give you shitty treatments.

Apart from curing diseases like syphilis with antibiotics, and modern vaccines, modern medicine is fucked.