Illness without (apparent) Disease

Healthcare aspires to help people who are ill - distressed or disabled. Often such illness is caused by disease - demonstrable disorders of the body. Healthcare is here at it's best. Many people with illnesses however show no signs of bodily disease. (In some cases doubtless there is disease which medical science cannot yet detect). Most such people however probably have no disease and here healthcare is at it's worst. It has a choice - up it's game, do the research and find better remedies or retreat and leave such illnesses to whomever might claim to help including sadly the grasping hands of alternative medicine which has no pretensions to effectiveness whatsoever. The money we spend on alternative medicine is huge and would be better spent within healthcare but healthcare has yet to decide if it wants this.