We Need to Stop Treating Naturopaths Like They’re Medical Doctors

[felix_numinous]

121. For profit hospitals and high cost

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combined with an astronomical hospital death rate have caused people to turn elsewhere for care. Every time a free clinic opens they are swamped with people needing care.

If you live on a good area of the country then bully for you, but in many parts of the country the standards are not so high. Short staffs and no unions have driven down working conditions in many places, MRSA is everywhere. They need unions and they need to stop running hospitals like businesses.

Combine this with the economic downturn and these will be the results. It's great to sit on a high horse ridiculing people for self treatment or self medication, it's become a sport for many people, but compassion is a much better approach to health care challenges than ridicule.

We can do better in this country, in making education healthcare and welfare a given. Perhaps then people would not only trust the system but would be more involved in it.

I know all of this has little to do with that child that drank onion juice, but since everyone else here wants to use this story to demonize the alternative health profession, I can provide context.

Medical services reflect the community they serve, even Johns Hopkins and NIH provide alternative medicine services, as do many integrative hospitals, demonstrating ways of regulating and exploring new ways to serve the public. Rather than demonizing all naturopaths in some kind of new witch hunt, it would be better to provide education.

Because if this new witch hunt, there have been many naturopaths and holistic doctors MURDERED, 29 poisoned on one count, so please be mindful when posting these stories. Yes they are upsetting, but the story is SO much more complex.

Peace~Felix