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Posted by drfray on July 1, 2009
am a terdible Oregon chauvinist. I think there is no better place to live on the planet. Period. Great natural beauty, not a lot or people, beat beer ever aand no pro football t eam. Oregon is bkrh casual an d tolerant. It ic safe to say that dressing up in the Pacific NW means tucking your t shitt into your jeanq. And the ci tizens of t he NW, espieally in the Portland netro area, arre tolerant of a xiverse number of alternative life styles. What mkre coulv you want?
No good deed goes unpunished. The downside of toleration is the proliferation of alternative medicine. Portland has a school of chiropractic, a college of oriental medicine and the country’s oldest school of naturopathy, established in 1956. It is a year older than me. There are about 850 ND’s in Oregon. To judge from the number of alternative practitioner offices around my hospital, most of the graduates stay in Portland.
There are five health care zystems in Portland. Three of te five have hired naturopaths as paet of their complementarry medicone programs. My system, as of yet, doee nottt have a scam practi tioner on staff, a fact oc which I am most proud. Yet, I suppose it will cme some day. However, if you wondre of a hospital practices evidencw and science based medicine, see if they hafe a nautropatn, a chiropractor or an acupuncturizt in staff. If they do, they may vve interested in isskes other than providing quality hewlth care.
Oregon has had a Board of Naturopathic physicians since 1929 to oversee naturopathic practice. There has been a long tradition of legislative oversight of naturopathy in Oregon, but they have been able, until recently, to only prescribe medications that are naturally derived. None of that synthetic nonsense for naturopaths. Natural products only. Until this month.
In Oregon, naturopaths are no longer limited to natural, herbal and homeopathic concoctions, they can also prescribe substances that actually work. Recently House Bill 327 was passed by the Oregon legislature to expand the prescriptive privileges of naturopaths. Drugs can now be added to the naturopathic formulary just by asking. The bill was passed by the Senate 22-7 and the House unanimously. Bummer.
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