B.C. gives naturopaths right to prescribe drugs. These people are not medical doctors, they have not completed a medical degree (they have their own degree program which glosses over a few medical terms before jumping into the quackery), and do not have the understanding of pharmacology required to prescribe drugs. Further, they have no understanding (because in many cases the studies have never been done) of the interactions between the herbs they normally prefer to use and the drugs they may be prescribing. Your doctor will usually tell you to avoid herbal “medications” while you are on actual medication because the interactions have not been extensively studied.
To make matters worse, midwives are now allowed to perform acupuncture for pain relief of women in labour. Never mind that accupuncture doesn’t work. There is no anatomical basis for the acupuncture points, or the meridian lines, chi energy, and other nonsense the points are based on. That’s right, let’s stick ineffective needles that don’t work into women who are trying to give birth. Good work British Columbia!
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