But as any experienced doctor knows, modern medicine can "cure" relatively few conditions.
These medicines usually cure Lyme disease within 3 weeks of starting treatment.
Medicines can cure most cases of high blood pressure.
But we also know that too little medicine won't cure America's health care ills.
If a patient becomes desperate, no medicine can cure him.
Medicine doesn't cure arthritis or slow the time it takes for cartilage to break down.
The medicine does not cure the ailing but the white rose does.
And as one man argued: "Why should we have tests if you have no medicines to cure us."
These medicines do not cure problems with anxiety that may have contributed to prostatitis.
Thirty-four percent of Americans believed that modern medicine "can cure almost any illness for people who have access to the most advanced technology and treatment."