Today's medicine is directed not towards nutrition or cure, but to treat symptoms. that's the pill pushing way.
If someone has many different symptoms over a period of time,
and complains enough to his, or her doc(s) - they'll invariably Rx something.
This can get to the point where someone is taking so many medications they don't know if the pills are helping or cancelling one another out.
Sometimes the side effects of some meds can give a person symptoms exactly the same as the condition being treated for - by another med.
There is a type of doc, a physiatrist, (who normally is in sports medicine) that is a coordinator of all one's docs and meds, as well as a detective for finding causes and possible treatments and cures.
We need more of this type of medicine being practiced,
rather than just a doc Rx'ng away without regard for the whole picture.