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. The only weapons they cannot bring to bear upon conditions within this systemic list are major surgery, the prescription of narcotics, and the administration of radiation therapeutically.
Naturopaths refer extensively.
This has been dealt with in prior answers, and to the extent that the specialist and the naturopath who referred a patient to him may confer on continuing diagnoses or treatment, there is consultation and cooperation, but not implied or actual supervision by one doctor over another. All patients a. The naturopathic physician. The appended N.A.N.P. Code of Ethics touches upon referral in several ways. Given by any of the practitioners named in 1.a.