Yes, there is a place for science.. but sometimes.. i think things get out of hand..
i think now of diptheria.. as i recall, when they (german? austrian?)doctors/hospital first planned a "double blind" study of the effectiveness of diptheria anti toxin (or was it a vacination?)
I am sure it was diptheria.
in any case, one doctor "ruined" the study-- by giving all the children the treatment.. (and they all survived.) since untreated diptheria has something like a 50% (is it higher?) mortality rate.. it was very clear the treatment was effective, even if the "official double blind" study to test the efficacy of treatment was ruined. but since it was din't use ...the application of the principles of science to prevent and cure disease, i guess we will never know if it really works, or if it works by magic.
a good deal of healing is done just by the effect of the "doctors" power! (and there have been many studies to show this!)
until the last year or two, it was common to have actors dress up as doctors to hawk drugs. (Dr. Marcus Welby did more to improve the sales of some pain relief drug then any other spokesperson.. studies showed people who liked the Dr. MW TV show, got more pain relief than people who didn't watch or like it! Bayer (or what ever) asprin was more effective when Dr. Welby said it was "powerful" medicine for pain!
I love science, and i think doctors are highly trainied professionals, but common folk are cured as much by the magic as by the doctor!
