The Scope of Naturopathy
I highly recommend you read this article about a naturopath who is now turning on other naturopaths. It seems the scope of treatment is what bothered her so and to be honest, it bothered me as well.
Britt Hermes studied naturopathy at Bastyr University and practiced for three years in Washington and Arizona and then “discovered that the profession functions as a system of indoctrination based on discredited ideas about health and medicine, full of anti-science rhetoric with many ineffective and dangerous practices.” Ouch.
Personally, I am open to alternative therapies. I don’t think allopathic medicine has all the answers and we tend to push way too many drugs, which seems to be influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. I get that. But I also believe patients should know who there “doctors” are and what their training was. What people don’t realize is that in a number of states, NDs can prescribe pharmaceuticals, do minor surgery, and essentially act as primary care physicians. Yes, primary care physicians.
Trust me and hit this link to read this article. It will, and should, scare you. And we let it happen.
This belongs here, after Steve’s article which provoked the starbursts of vanity from the Physician Assistant readers. There is a great system to suppress the control of intermediates in the “Health Care Industry.” The “best” things in American business involve driving up to the menu and speaking into the Clown’s mouth. There are “choices.” You can have one.
One of the best ways to invalidate the doctors, is to have all sorts of doctors. Some states are experimenting with PharmD’s providing direct patient care – they wear white coats, refer to themselves as “doctors,” (why, aren’t they?) and expound themselves as diabetes specialists. (If you know about the drugs, you don’t need to examine the diabetic.) There are Doctors of Naprapathy, Doctors of Chiropractic (who can be primary care providers), NP’s with a doctorate in nursing (they call themselves Doctors, of course) and Doctors of Oriental Medicine. They will warn you about mercury in your fillings, preservatives in your vaccines, fluoride in your water.
Healthcare is in the midst of a “Quality Harvest,” by which they mean, squeeze much of the actual quality out of healthcare delivery and use phony healthcare measures to drive the herd into the pens. It is paying off in bundles of money looted from the suckers who know they are getting shilled, but don’t know who’s running the grift.
Everyone who wrangles an “opportunity” to give healthcare is looking up at the one person making more then them, and not the fifty people down the ladder who want a piece of the “opportunity” you’re withholding from them. If you don’t think PA’s are filthy rich, ask someone managing a Wendy’s at double-minimum-wage. They finished biology in college – where’s there shot at the Big Time? And the puppetmasters laugh, hysterically.