Health, I share your sentiments regarding the all-doctors-are-crazy mantra. However, those two doctors you mentioned are, in fact, conventional doctors, as well. When you go to someone like that you know that he won’t ignore real medical needs.
Your mention of the life span of past years doesn’t really tip the scale. Nobody is trying to discredit the benefits of anti-biotics or surgery. Also, most alternative methods being given attention to weren’t around all these years. They are mostly new age stuff. In the past, people weren’t aware of what to keep away from.
Now I’ll agree that there is no tested way of knowing which alternative method works best, other than hearsay. And of course, you shouldn’d trade in going to a doctor for drinking Indian cow tea. But, if people were more open minded we would get the benefits of everything.
Conventional medicine has it’s limitations when it comes to auto-immune disease and other non-physical ailments. Perhaps Chinese medicine, One-brain, imagery, or who knows what else should be explored.