My boss said, “They were probably confiscated.” I assumed patients had been given informed consent, as they were spending thousands of dollars on the treatments. It didn’t strike me as unusual that the packages, containing dozens of old-fashioned glass ampules, were marked with foreign postage. They flocked to him because his credentials included FABNO (Fellow of the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology). Others had chosen him for first line treatment. His patients would get regular intravenous injections of Ukrain despite, in some cases, being discharged by their medical oncologists due to the severity of their disease. I quit after discovering my boss had been importing a non–Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drug called Ukrain and administering it to cancer patients (Thielking 2016 Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board 2015).

I likely would have gone the entirety of my career as a naturopath if I hadn’t unexpectedly found myself in a nerve-rattling situation.

While I was more drawn to using real medical treatments rather than esoteric therapies, I was happy to be employed by the renowned naturopathic cancer “specialist” who owned the clinic. Britt.” In Arizona, I worked outside the health insurance system and catered to a patient population interested in aligning chakras and detoxing with diets and enemas. Thanks to poor legislation in many states, I could advertise as a primary care physician, write prescriptions, and bill insurance companies. Herein lies my story.įrom 2011 until 2014, I was a licensed naturopathic doctor in the United States. Naturopathic medicine is not any kind of medicine, and its practitioners are nothing short of quacks.

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