Question: What is a major problem for modern medicine?
About the article "Medicine", section "Criticism of modern medicine".

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In addition to being declared a national leader because of its problem-based curriculum, the world set its sights on the John A. Burns School of Medicine in 1998 when Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi and his team of scientists developed what is now called the "Honolulu Technique" for cloning mice. 
Working together as an interdisciplinary team, many highly trained health professionals besides medical practitioners are involved in the delivery of modern health care.
Examples include: nurses, emergency medical technicians and paramedics, laboratory scientists, pharmacists, podiatrists physiotherapists, respiratory therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, radiographers, dietitians, and bioengineers.
The scope and sciences underpinning human medicine overlap many other fields.
Dentistry, while considered by some a separate discipline from medicine, is a medical field.
A patient admitted to hospital is usually under the care of a specific team based on their main presenting problem, e.g., the Cardiology team, who then may interact with other specialties, e.g., surgical, radiology, to help diagnose or treat the main problem or any subsequent complications/developments.
Physicians have many specializations and subspecializations into certain branches of medicine, which are listed below.
There are variations from country to country regarding which specialties certain subspecialties are in.
The main branches of medicine are:  Basic sciences of medicine; this is what every physician is educated in, and some return to in biomedical research.
Medical specialties  Interdisciplinary fields, where different medical specialties are mixed to function in certain occasions.  
The British Society for Ecological Medicine (BSEM) is the major professional group dealing with ecological medicine in the United Kingdom.
Its origins began with the British Society for Allergy and Environmental Medicine (BSAEM), which was founded in 1983 as a doctors group for discussion of the role of allergy and environment in chronic illness.
The following year, the British Society for Nutritional Medicine (BSNM) started with the aim of promoting applications of nutrition in clinical medicine.
Ecological medicine takes a similar approach to orthomolecular medicine for the prevention and treatment of disease.
While orthomolecular medicine focuses more specifically on nutrition, ecological medicine covers a broader range of clinical factors.
In 1993, the BSAEM and the BSNM merged to form the British Society for Allergy, Environmental and Nutritional Medicine (BSAENM).
This merger reflected the similar philosophy of the two medical societies.
In 2005, the society changed its name to the British Society for Ecological Medicine to accommodate the wider objective of including all the environmental factors that affect the practice of modern medicine. 
Up until the middle of the 19th century, following the pioneering work of Brown, Hahnemann, Röschlaub, Lutze and Schönlein, to mention only the main figures, the scientific approach to the question of life, particularly as reflected in the development of Healthcare, seemed conducive to the development of a method that was based on a cognitive capacity going beyond mere mentation ("Sinn" or "mens") and a true physiology involving living functions rather than simply mechanics and chemistry.
However, it seemed that the Zeitgeist (Spirit of the Times) could not yet accept such an approach, most minds being still fully ensconced in the intellectual phase (Coleridge's "epoch of the intellect and the senses") of human consciousness.
It was only the extraordinary mind of genius that was able at this stage to meet the challenge of a true science of life and mind, what Colerdige termed the “Dynamic System of Thought.”As a result, the analytical approach favored by the French, schooled in the Cartesian system of mind-body duality, and with their significant advance in surgery (albeit based on access to and development of original Greek medical writings and more modern Greek surgical practice), came to dominate Western science.
In Germany, the work of Rudolf Virchow, while drawing from the advances made by Romantic science, effectively reduced and simplified them more in line with what the intellect was able to grasp.
The achievements of Romantic Science and Medicine could not be denied, but neither could they be accepted; instead, they were either denigrated as misguided, occult or somehow dreamers, not serious scientists.
The following historiographic assessment is the one that has generally prevailed until recently.
Around the middle of the 1800s, medicine makes a gigantic surge into a critical, empirical-analytical research project: Virchow's demand for a strict, natural scientific method then enabled medical thinking to disentangle itself from the flowery and thorny fields of romantic Naturphilosophie and to transplant itself into the earth of natural scientific-analytic procedure.
(Schrenk 1973) Virchow’s cellular theory provided the supposed basis for life, without explaining it, and superseded the ancient, and by now denigrated humoral theory (because the noetic capacity to diagnose at this etheric level had waned).
As such, chemistry and physics could become the basis for medicine, all the more in that medicine effectively had been reduced to surgery and chemistry, the latter due to Pasteur’s ‘germ theory’ of disease (really an unproven hypothesis and where proven according to strict requirements of Koch’s postulates, still not fully explanatory in terms of the concepts and reality of ‘susceptibility’ and ‘immunity’, which contemporaries of Pasteur, such as Béchamp and Claude Bernard, sought to address).
The problem of life was to be ‘solved’ by Virchow’s cellular hypothesis as the basis of life, which conveniently posited life within medicine without having to explain it.
Thus, as N. Tsouyopoulos points out, Western ‘medicine’ was effectively reduced to surgery and emergency drug treatments, possessing no basis to deal with chronic, complex disorders or diseases having rejected the dynamic approaches developed by the Brunonian orientation, as developed in general terms (physic and physiology) by Röschlaub/Schönlein and Saumarez, and in particular regarding disease (medicine and pathology) by Hahnemann/Lutze.
As one reviewer of Tsouyopoulos' major work on romantic medicine summarized: "Romantic medicine was to fall into disfavour as the positivist approach from France gained ground, to the point where Karl August Wunderlich in 1859 dismissed it as mere hollow theory divorced from all empiricism, a myth that survived for nearly a century.
"To the extent that human physiology contains a physical/chemical aspect (broken bones, impinging tumours on vital nerves, severed arteries, or severe tissue damage, significant hormonal or chemical imbalances, severe microbial invasion, and the like), a mechanic-material approach will produce effective results, witness the ‘miracles’ of Western emergency medicine, but in the realm of internal ‘medicine’, there are no cures, only the suppression of symptoms or long-term disease and disorder management using chemical means, mostly synthetic, the intellect seeing no difference between a natural ‘chemical’ and a synthesized one.
As one writer summarizes: "Alongside of English and French medicine of that time, whose significance was never under-appreciated, German Romantic Medicine comes off in no way as inferior or reactionary.
Its contribution to overcoming the foundational crisis in medical history and for founding a scientific clinic is substantial and decisive for the whole of later developments...today, in our searching for new models and alternatives in medicine, Romantic Medicine lies closer to home than the so-called natural scientific medicine of the later 1800s and early 1900s."
The European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH) is a philosophy organization in Europe that promotes discussion among philosophers, physicians, ethicists and lawyers about the role of medicine and health care in modern society.