Naturopaths can and do minister to welfare recipients, to recipients of industrial accident insurance benefits, etc. Naturopaths are available as practitioners and clinicians to any' entity of local, state, or federal government which wishes to employ their talents. In such facilities as the National College Of Naturopathic Medicine, outpatients are treated by practitioners and their students on a clinical basis. Naturopaths work within specific statutory limits, which usually prohibit major surgery and the administration of narcotics. Because naturopathy is by root a natural mode of healing, the restrictions against administration of narcotics are welcomed and encouraged by naturopaths.
Naturopaths have no aversion to referring.
As an example of statutory limitations upon this profession, the salient Oregon law governing naturopathy is appended. The average naturopathic practitioner serves a patient population of 2000 yearly. Naturopaths in the main serve geriatric patients, by choice, not fiat. Naturopaths are prohibited from performing major surgery, but can perform minor surgery. Intermingling this answer with that to D.1.