@iamthemob I am wondering what exactly you were thinking when creating the question? Were you thinking about herbal remedies? Or, an actual pharmacological discovery that would be kept from the market place because if there are fewer patients it hurts business?
See, the every day GP will still see patients to check their health, because we aren’t going to cure all disease in one shot (no pun intended). The will still be strep throat even if we cure the common cold. We will still need our cholesterol checked even if we cure congestive heart failure.
Women will still go to the GYN, even if we completely prevent all strains of HPV with a vaccination, women will still need birth control and can still get ovarian cysts, and will still be getting pregnant, having trouble getting pregnant, going through menopause. GYN’s don’t need cervical cancer caused by HPV to exist to stay busy. If they cure type 1 diabetes, probably type 2 will still exist, and so will thyroid troubles, and other hormonal disorders, so the endocrinologists are still busy. If you cure smokers related lung cancer, there is still other types of lung cancer. I don’t think there is a conspiracy to keep patients sick.
The herbal remedies are not proven so doctors can’t really prescribe them. If they go under the rigors of testing, then the doctors can.
There is what I call a certain amount of legal corruption in the process of bringing drugs to market, it is not a perfect system for sure, but I would say practicing doctors definitely would not stand in the way of a cure. They sometimes are unaware of research, or are narrow-minded that is true, but I don’t think it is about money in those cases.