SCNM Homeopathy Teacher ND Rice on ABC15 Arizona

here, some musings on poor identifiers and outright mislabelings:

001. from the SCNM YouTube channel, there's "Dr. Elizabeth Rice - How to Deal with Election Anxiety, ABC15", which tells us:

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[tags: #SCNMND #NDRICE]

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"[from the description] SCNM Medical Center physician, SCNM alumna and faculty member, Dr. Elizabeth Rice, was interviewed by ABC15 about dealing with election anxiety. Dr. Rice spoke about different ways people can mitigate stressful situations, along with lifestyle tips to help anxiety [...from the video] so Jamie Warren spoke with a local physician [...and the chyron is given] 'Dr. Elizabeth Rice'";

and that's all you get, never is she identified as an ND.  She's not falsely credentialed as an MD either, but, shouldn't we be told her point of view in terms of a healthcare credential?  IS a naturopath a physician?  I regard them as metaphysicians, e.g. with all that imaginary vitalism and supernaturalism at the core of the naturopathic worldview.  Or should I say otherworldly view?  And so I decided to search... 

002. her bio. pages (here; here, here) state she's a 2009 SCNM graduate whose:

"class teaching [is] homeopathy" and whose "homeopathic approach to cancer addresses the underlying imbalances that contribute to cancer growth and function."

yeah, prove it.  Yes quite disturbing, and all the while SCNM states ND "students learn the same foundational bio-medical sciences they would at a conventional medical school" [2020 archived]. Except the ND schooling gives you more: a heaping pile of laxity of scientific rigor.

003. at the AANMC, the North American ND school consortia, we're told in "Dr. Elizabeth Rice – SCNM" [2020 archived]:

"Dr. Rice teaches Hahnemannian homeopathy [...] and we're told] to be an excellent homeopath, you must first be an excellent physician [...]  I am currently working on elevating the homeopathic curriculum within the naturopathic medical school program with the Diplomate of the Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians (DHANP).”

well, I quite disagree.  An excellent physician should be able to weed out fake pharmacy, aka homeopathy, from actually effective therapeutics.  Baked in forever to naturopathy!  And all the while the AANMC calls an ND education a "rigorous four-year, science-based medical education."  So, a science subset medicine subset naturopathy subset homeopathy quite false claim.

 004. and of course:

homeopathy is quite bogus. Its use, quite unethical.  Its mislabeling as science, quite naturopathic.