Under the impact of modern medicine, indigenous people now only seek out shamans when it appears Western medicine has no more help to offer, and they have no choice. Under such circumstances, shamans have themselves had to adapt to modern times.
受到現代醫療進步的影響，原住民生病時，看巫醫成了西醫宣佈沒辦法時的最後選擇，面對這種情形，巫醫自己倒也從善如流，發展出一套因應之道。