Confessions of a naturopathic doctor
A mom was en route to my office. Her 5-year old child in the back seat was unresponsive. She was on the phone with our receptionist. She reported her kid could barely speak and was ghost white. Speaking through the receptionist, I insisted the mom drive straight to the emergency...
This post originally appeared on ScienceBasedMedicine.org on April 13, 2015. I am including the article here in its original form to help readers easily discover the truth about naturopathic education. Right before I left the naturopathic profession, an Arizona naturopath told me that “all NDs are doing something borderline...
I am no longer a licensed naturopathic doctor. My Arizona license expired on New Year’s Eve of 2014. My Washington license expired this past week, on my 31st birthday. Both states gave me unreasonably broad scopes of practice. I was allowed to diagnose and treat disease, order labs and imaging,...