Holistic medicine is a form of non-traditional western healing.
Many people turn to an alternative cure when they arrive at a dead end with traditional western healing. Holistic medicine is a better alternative for some people because they feel unsatisfied with the way Western medicine views people. It is not uncommon to hear doctors in hospitals refer to people by what is wrong with them and their room number. This is a clear reflection of one of the major problems with modern Western doctors. They tend to treat diseases rather than people, and view people in an anonymous way rather than as individual people with cares, personalities, histories and emotions.