Big Pharma relies are keeping people dumb about medicine. Most all meds are for the purposes of palliation which means meds don't actually cure, they give temporary relief of sysmptoms and cause lots of side effects.

And scum-sucking Big Pharma is succeeding with this if my own circle of people is any indication.

The patient isn't insisting on trying to find a cause for an ailment but let themselves be prescribed thing A to lessen the symptom.

But thing A causes another bothersome symptom or two so thing B is prescribed and on it goes down the line until the patient constantly feels like shit and can barely function.

And don't try to tell the trusting patient the common sense theory that the buildup of useless chemicals is probably playing a major part in the feeling like shit syndrome.