001. CSMS states in "Connecticut State Medical SocietyTestimony in opposition to House Bill 5294 An Act Concerning Naturopaths PublicHealth Committee March 5, 2018" (2018) [2018 archived]:
"Senator Gerratana, Senator
Somers, Representative Steinberg and members of the Public
Health Committee, on behalf of
the physicians and physicians in training of the
Connecticut State Medical Society
(CSMS) and the Connecticut Chapter of the American
College of Physicians (CT ACP),
thank you for the opportunity to provide this testimony
to you today in opposition to
House Bill 5294 An Act Concerning Naturopaths [...] we urge the
Committee to reject HB 5294 [...]";
hear, hear.
"with HB 5294, the
naturopaths are once again requesting prescriptive authority without
any evidence that they have done
anything to correct the deficiencies that were
discovered during the Scope of
Practice Review Committee process [...] in
closing, we would like to express our concern that the comingling of competing therapeutic
philosophies is contrary to the principles of good care. Our naturopathic colleagues openly spurn both
evidence-based and science-based knowledge and therapeutics, and yet they feel
they are prepared to use medications that can have serious and even deadly side effects.
This is a dangerous proposition. We remain concerned that patients will be confused and
misled by providers who are neither true believers in naturopathy nor committed
practitioners of the science-based medicine that has been the foundation of medical practice
for doctors of medicine (MD) and doctors of osteopathy
(DO) ever since Flexner set down
his guidelines more than 110 years ago [...]";
oh snap.
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