Confessions of a naturopathic doctor
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,...
There is no way that naturopathic training produces better health care that is affordable or more efficacious than what is currently available. Yet, this is exactly the rhetoric fed to federal and state lawmakers about naturopathic medicine, and it is wrong.
Latest updates: October 2023 Twenty-three U.S. states and Washington D.C. currently license naturopaths. Six Canadian provinces register naturopaths. Use the map below to find information on pending naturopathic legislation in the United States and Canada. Hover over a region and click for details, including summaries of scope of practice, history,...