In recent philosophy of medicine, skeptics have raised the concern that medicine is less effective than is commonly assumed. Broadbent suggests that the goal of medicine is cure and cure is not achieved in most cases. Stegenga says that many medical interventions are barely effective at all and blames faulty or even fraudulent research. My position is that the goal of medicine is not cure, but help. From this auxiliary perspective, medicine seems less ineffective than Broadbent and Stegenga want us to believe. Moreover, part of medical ineffectiveness should not be attributed to medicine or medical science but to the inherent uncertainty of biological processes and, thus, medical interventions.