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Category: Patient Harm

Posted on 6 February 201610 January 2017 Nutrition Patient Harm What's the harm?

The “pH Miracle Diet” naturopath is guilty, but California still has a problem

Robert O. Young, a naturopath in California who ran a luxury medical clinic, was found guilty of two counts of practicing medicine without a license. While this news marks an end to the saga of Young’s spree of quackery and precarious trial, during which the jury was nearly hung and ordered by...

Posted on 4 January 201610 January 2017 Former Patient Patient Harm

Confessions of a former naturopathic patient: I am not getting better and it is not my fault

In February 2012, I was twenty-eight years old and had been living with a diagnosis of endometriosis for over a year. I’d had a miscarriage a few months before my diagnosis but was unable to conceive again. Birth control pills and then Lupron Depot, a drug that mimics menopause, hadn’t helped control my increasing...

Posted on 1 November 201510 January 2017 Patient Harm Pediatrics Vaccinations

Naturopath lets her kids suffer with Whooping cough, child abuse?

I was not planning on writing today. But then I read a blog post about naturopathic “cures” for Whooping cough, and I got mad. There must have been significant backlash, as the post has been taken down from www.LikeMindedMamas.com and the group’s Facebook page, Like-Minded Mamas. I took a screenshot...

Posted on 21 July 201528 January 2019 Anonymous Guest Cancer Patient Harm

CTCA: The Cancer Treatment Charade of America? Profiting on Alternative Medicine

Britt’s note: This week’s post is from a former employee of Cancer Treatment Centers of America. After witnessing cancer care that seemed to him to be based purely on profit, the author left CTCA. Today the author is speaking out in order to provide an inside look at CTCA’s business...

Posted on 15 June 20155 March 2016 Anonymous Guest Ethics Patient Harm

The Morality of Practicing Medicine and the Licensed Naturopath

The “care” aspect of patient care can be challenging for doctors. This is especially true in the face of uncertainty like with chronic or idiopathic diseases. Patients tend to want to know why they are ill. (I know I did.) When patients feel questions are not sufficiently addressed by medical...

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Posted on 30 January 201521 February 2017 Patient Harm

Patients of Naturopathic Medicine

During my time practicing as a naturopath, I witnessed patients needlessly suffer physically, emotionally, and financially. Patients need to know that naturopaths undergo extremely poor medical training.

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I am an ex-naturopathic doctor. I started this blog to expose naturopathic medicine and protect patients from the dangerous and incompetent practices rife in my former profession. —Britt Marie Hermes Read more.

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Please help me raise money for my defense in a defamation lawsuit brought by a naturopath in Arizona who treats cancer patients taking using intravenous baking soda and vitamin C. Australian Skeptics, Inc. has organized a fundraiser to help with the legal costs.

To read more about the case, see this blog post.

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