Acupuncture

I have had acupuncture before to treat chronic fatigue and it worked amazingly well.

I'm probably a bit of a middle ground in this argument. 'Western' medicine has made some amazing break throughs, as others above have already described, but I find that modern science does bring its drawbacks in how things are looked at, particularly the 'we can't prove it in tests so it obviously doesn't do anything' aspect which can be all too commonly applied to all manner of things. I can think of any number of native herbal remedies which have been dismissed by 'western' scientists as folklore and mysticism until they actually bothered to look into them and, voila, another new 'drug'. Acupuncture sometimes suffers in a similar way.

I agree with a lot of what hoonz says above. My view of 'western' medicine is that it is amazingly good at treating acute, localised injuries but it tends to run out of options for treating more holistic ailments that cannot easily be nailed down to this gland or that organ. That's where some of the older and more holistic treatments still work better, IMO, because they focus on how the body is working as a whole rather than a series of connected pieces.

Each style of treatment has its advantages and its uses, but I do not believe that modern medicinal techniques and approaches are even close to really understanding how the human body works as a complete entity.