Health, disease, and injury have a great deal to do with behavior. With its endorsement of homosexuality in 1973, the medical profession opened the way for the AIDS epidemic. I would not go so far as to say that the AIDS epidemic would never have happened without that endorsement, but certainly the epidemic was enhanced by the decision. In 1977, Dr. James Lynch wrote the book, The Broken Heart, which demonstrated that married couples had better health and longevity, less disease, and fewer psychological problems than single people. 2 - Medicine has failed to condemn abortion.
Abortion wreaks havoc on life expectancy.
3 - Medicine has essentially left religion out of psychiatry. Answers to family and social problems are sought in a pill, rather than religion, which is often the only answer to those problems. I do not deny real organic psychiatric problems, but millions of Americans are needlessly medicated with the serious side effects and morbidity and mortality that those medications cause, while having their real situational problems camouflaged. 4 - Medicine has been an accomplice to increasing crime. The evolutionary view of man cannot accept that some people are just mean and evil.