As an opening response I would suggest that the expectations of society in every field, not just medical, are inconsistent in both focus and relative prioritisation. Temporally and across all areas of human endeavour and within those areas. This suggests that there is also no consensus regarding the standards and mores by which alternatives are evaluated.

This is to be expected. We are all from different locations, and have different cultural and metaphysical backgrounds, have different mixes of socio-economic pressures and most have frequently changing political interpretations of these influences in our institutions of governance - both professional/regulatory and legislative.

The 'expressions of societal demand' upon clinicians are based on the local aims and goals of the various sub-groups of each society and and the pressures that they are experiencing from other affected groups. This describes a heterogeneous and fluid social environment. To an extent this is good. But when there is no fundamental foundational source of ethical reasoning in common, an 'ethical archaeo-institution', that subsumes and accommodates all other metaphysical institutional formations, then we must expect every group to demand, at minimum cost to themselves, the maximum of services from every other group with which they interact.

The greatest contribution society, in general and evolving to include society at its most macro level, can make to the dilemma it is pushing clinical practice, and all areas of human cooperative activity and service delivery, towards would be to understand that such an axiomatic ethical basis to all life is required amongst all people and societies that seek to mutually cooperate in providing a developing, durable, resilient and sustainable individual lifetime experience of wellbeing universally. This is possible.... but perhaps not probable in the short term!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1456905/

As a patient's family member, I flew from the US to Taiwan to visit my mother in the ER. For near a month, my mother had two tubes inserted and had clear conscious. But, she could not say any word before she left the world with me. How painful for both of us and how cruel the reality was?

As a TCM practitioner, my mother did not need any tubes be inserted. Please read https://www.researchgate.net/project/Humanity-treatments-are-Patients-right/update/5cf4b74d3843b0b9825573da and https://www.researchgate.net/project/Humanity-treatments-are-Patients-right/update/5d0c145ccfe4a7968dace00e .

To me, as a healthcare provider, it's my personal responsibility to find a way to solve patient's health problem. To this point, I achieved my self-request to solve my patient's health problems in a cheaper and immediate improvement. If I do not think its my responsibility for my patient's health, my medical skill will never reach my current level. That I can treat many cases that both MDs and acupuncturists mistreated or do not know how to treat.

Dear Satish Narula , if you are me, face your Mom could not say any word to you before she left the world. Or, even she got qualified TCM treatment could be without any pain, recovered and still alive, what will you feel and would like to say?

There are chances for you to learn alternative treatments instead of "no solution". Will you like to put extra effort to change yourself in your practice?

Yes in India now stress is put on alternative medicine as a complimentary to allopathy and alternative medicine practitioners are successful in treating not treatable by allopathy, there efforts are not in black and white or published

Then, just refer your patient to get treated by alternative medicine if there is a license hold by the practitioner.

There are many US excellent MDs refer their patients to acupuncturists to get well taken care of their patients. Those MDs still can keep their patients.

Yet, there are money driving MDs prohibit their patients to visit any acupuncturist in order to not lose any of their patients. I had treated this kind MD's patient.