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Originally Posted by edslunch
Poor choice of words but she's talking about prevention through healthier lifestyles and access to proactive healthcare. The naturopathic doctor (they are regulated in Alberta) she is interviewing isn't promoting natural medicine as an alternative to regular medicine but as a complement to it, focusing more on the prevention side. I don't have an opinion on this - I believe some of the unregulated 'doctors' are total quacks - but I would support moves to helping people live healthier lives and not just healing them when they are sick.
I do find it strange that Smith would devote an entire hour or whatever to this interview, claiming she knows little about naturopathic medicine but asking about what sort of regulatory improvements they would like, and I wonder who this is actually aimed at.
I would not vote for her but I had to comment that the tweet is overly alarmist.
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It's just another example of her making statements for which she has know expertise to make, but giving the public the impression she knows what she is talking about, by have an"expert" on hand when she says it. A real medical expert would have called her out on it, but that's why she never has real experts on hand.