I enjoyed your article. As a naturopathic doctor, I feel that my profession is much closer to the original vision of health that Hippocrates had from the Kosian school of maintaining balance as a lot of what I do is about trying to work with the body's physiology rather then against it.
Modern medicine seems to be closer to a Knidiain philosophy now since that vast majority of pharmaceutical drugs are designed to inhibit targeted a targeted enzyme. If a enzyme system is inhibited excessively and causes negative effects it is called a poison. Even though modern medicine doesn't believe in a spiritual realm, they still trick themselves into believing that it is better to give a poison then do nothing since they don't trust the body to be able to self-heal and self-regulate on its own.
You are precisely correct in assuming the medical profession has its origins in the Knidean school of thought. The idea of a "demonic possession" as the cause of illness was in perfect alignment with the Church and bolstered for some 15 centuries in Europe.
As humans, we love to impose our will upon everything we come in contact with. This is a dangerous concept in the healing arts, as it violates the will and recuperative powers of the body.
Each of our professions play a role in health care but are naturally limited. The medical profession has made huge strides in their fields and in the basic sciences in understanding specific mechanisms of the physiology of pathogenesis. They also treat what already exists, using their methodologies.
The problem with other professions whose objectives are to prevent disease is that we can never show we are active in preventing anything because its lack of expression can never be determined to be casual or causal to our activities.
It's a conundrum!
Thanks for the response!