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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Here's a few:
Seen about 5 to 10 diagnosed with "parasites". No testing done, just if the patients say they had mild diarrhea for months and/or felt unwell especially after travelling. Prescribes 3 different antiparasitics and doses well below 1/3rd of the actual doses normally given and gave a duration of 3 weeks, which isn't long enough for some and too long for others. Because these are pretty uncommon medications, total medication bill for these patients was $500.
Had a young patient on bioidentical hormones for 3 years because the naturopath said her depression was because of "hormones imbalance". Total medication costs after 3 years was easily in the multiple thousands.
40ish year old overweight diabetic was told by the naturopath that they were overweight because they had the naturopath invented disease "adrenal insufficiency" and was prescribed hydrocortisone tablets. I refused to fill the prescription because her sugars already weren't under control and this would have been disastrous. Patient was upset I wouldn't fill and went elsewhere. No idea how that turned out
A naturopath in Vancouver was treating children with autism with homeopathic rabid dog saliva. Another one in Vancouver sells cures for autism by sending kids to Mexico to have stool transplants
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Thanks for this. Amazing.
Naturopathic medicine is interesting because they so desperately want to be seen as mainstream but rely on unconventional quackery to draw the interest of right wing loonies who really are their only source of support.