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Originally Posted by Ashartus
If your doctor is just treating symptoms, then you should look for a new doctor; where the underlying causes are known modern medicine is geared towards treating the causes (e.g. treating a bacterial infection causing a high fever rather than just trying to lower the fever). Many "alternative" medicine practitioners, on the other hand, assume the same magical cause for all conditions and use the same treatment regardless of the problem.
A good doctor will give lifestyle and dietary advice and look at your overall health (mine does). Unfortunately there are some doctors that don't do a good job - especially the ones working in walk-in clinics who invariably seem to prescribe antibiotics for everything.
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The first bolded part is not the case for my experience. Each person is looked at individually, and my N.D. asks "Well, how are we going to help kipperiggy?" more than "this works for Bob, so let's try it with kipperiggy". But I could see some alternative medicine practitioners making the assumption you stated, I suppose.
The second bolded part is to highlight the fact that both my M.D. and my N.D. do this for me, not just my M.D.