I have friends who are docs and a familiy member who is a doctor.
I can assure you that those that I know are anxious to use whatever can be shown to be of help.
The problem is that it requires evidence of both safty and effectiveness. For almost all of the "alternative" medicinces this evidence is not there. Little by little some of them do get studied. Somre prove to be of some use and some don't.
As one told me: "There is no 'alternative' medicine. There is medicine which works and that which doesn't. When something is shown to work it is used."
There are huge problems in getting the evidence I agree. I have doc friends who are rather "left" politically and those who are pretty "right" (by Canadian standards anyway
). The interesting thing to me is that they all agree that the drug companies need to be brought under some sort of control. While they do produce useful research some of my friends think that they may be starting to be more harmful than the value they produce.
However, when you spend a bit of time thinking and discussing the problems you realize that there are no easy solutions. It is daunting to try to find and safely implement really useful therapies. We may blame drug companies, the FDA or conservative doctors. All of those problems may be there but under all that the process is complex and not something that glib answers will solve.