The problem is we currently tend to ignore certain biases in our process which are known to introduce errors. Once it becomes a recommended medical practice that medical professionals use, medical opinion often trumps common sense and patients have trouble defending themselves even when they, personally, are certain this is harming them.
Doctors will outright suggest you are mentally ill and need to see a therapist if your life is on the line, you aren't satisfied with their course of treatment and you question what they are doing and/or express concerns that this could kill you. Once they more or less declare you crazy for questioning them, you lose even more control over your body, your health, your life and your right to actively make decisions for yourself.
There is definitely room for improvement in our current process.
That western medicine is often full of itself, deeply [insert -ism or -phobia] in practice, and frequently misguided is all very true and reasonable criticism. The person I replied to was essentially writing off the entire foundation of western medicine because doctors and medical science people don't always fully understand why things work.
It would be like someone writing off Newtonian physics before quantum mechanics was a thing because a lot more of the how wasn't yet understood. The practice of medicine has moved past the "if she floats, she's made of wood, and that means she's a witch" phase even if it still sees anyone other than cishet white dudes as witches.
Doctors will outright suggest you are mentally ill and need to see a therapist if your life is on the line, you aren't satisfied with their course of treatment and you question what they are doing and/or express concerns that this could kill you. Once they more or less declare you crazy for questioning them, you lose even more control over your body, your health, your life and your right to actively make decisions for yourself.
There is definitely room for improvement in our current process.