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Originally Posted by Anthony
There's two possibilities for what esoteric medicine is doing. One is that it's useless. The other is that it's doing the same thing as physician, though possibly with different efficiency. Physician is not 'traditional rational reductionists approaches', physician is 'long-term medical treatment with TL-appropriate methods'. Most esoteric medicine is effectively Physician/TL4 (aka useless), hypothetical more useful methods would be something like Physician/TL4+4.
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Somewhere in between. Herbalism is basically chemical medicine but some herbs used are unneeded or have added chemicals that are themselves unneeded. Surgery is more craft in wielding tools. And both of those have magic mixed in because among many peoples nothing is done without it.