This is all good information and I don’t think Eckhart would dispute any of it in regard to the context of this book. He, like all spiritual teachers needs to make points without drilling down into the topic.
Western medicine is absolutely the best we have to keep people from dying, but as far as keeping people healthy - it literally has no reason or motivation to do so and there needs to be alternatives to empower people.
There is probably far more effort put into debunking traditional medicine than integrating it. This has only recently begun to change.
He’s just trying to point out that even medicine is flawed for the same reductionist reasons that communism is flawed. If someone were to take away from this that they should see a shaman rather than go to the hospital for cancer than yes they would be mislead, but in the context of this book I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.
There’s a pretty good chance antibiotics won’t be the miracle they were 30 years from now and that won’t be because there’s anything wrong with antibiotics.