Have doctors turned prescriptors?

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A friend recently received a shock: his cardiologist wants him to get an angiogram, that is, after almost a year of working his heart out to be better, with so many prescribed medicines. My friend took the meds religiously, managed his food intake, exercised, and had enough rest. Yet, his heart palpitated fast, prompting him to seek his doctor's care, only to be told that an angiogram is necessary, then angioplasty, and judging from the result of the 2d Echo, a heart transplant is eventual. Ain't that a shock? My friend turned pale, of course, how could he not, his heart was rendered useless! He left his cardiologist thinking he would prove all the things he said wrong. So he sought another opinion, from an old doctor who listened to him and watched him tell his story. The old doctor didn't look old at all, actually, and that was what he told my friend, and all his patients for that matter: many doctors now have become prescriptors of medicine instead of being the healers they took an oath they would be. He explained that the meds he was given initially, for his heart, was causing damage to other organs in the body, and that is why he was not getting better. The doctor proceeded to give him healing meds, a particular diet, and advised him to get sunshine at least an hour and a half in the morning. Well, now, my friend's face is glowing.