The following involves a REAL letter to the webmaster. Thank you in advance for all your help, Thank you for writing. I don't know why she chose what you term a 'sketchy' field.
Naturopathic medicine is on the leading edge of the paradigm shift occuring in healthcare.
The current medical system is fragmented, costly and far too often, ineffective. If it weren't so widely accepted, you would probably say it's value is 'sketchy' since it meets patients too late in the process of sickness, the treatments offered have side effects that lead to more reliance on drugs and surgery in an ever increasing spiral, and the impact on society of all the suppressed illness is huge in terms of worker effectiveness, how taxes are spent, the challenge of dealing with age related issues, etc. While the life span has elongated for more people than in previous eras of history, most of this extension is related to improvements in public hygiene, not in medicine as is widely promoted by the medical establishment, and life quality has not gone up for the majority of people living longer. Your daughter may be rich in common sense, and can see that the heatlhcare system must inevitably embrace the principles of naturopathic medicine if it is indeed to be a healthcare system rather than just a disease management system. I saw that, as a result of the slow death of my grandfather, a once proud man whose medical treatment reduced him to a completely dependant 81 year man living in a nursing home and needing help for the simplest body functions. 2.