{"id":268,"date":"2006-03-12T16:21:42","date_gmt":"2006-03-12T21:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=268"},"modified":"2019-12-28T13:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T18:06:18","slug":"whens-a-naturopath-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/whens-a-naturopath-not\/","title":{"rendered":"When&#8217;s a naturopath not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When there&#8217;s no license that says so. Or something.<\/p>\n<p>A <em>Village Voice<\/em> article covers a campaign underway in New York State to restrict the title &#8220;Doctor of Naturopathy&#8221; to practitioners who hold four-year degrees &#8220;from an accredited naturopathic college.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the issues:<\/p>\n<p>* Would licensing make it easier, or harder, for people to make alternative healthcare decisions?<\/p>\n<p>* Is this a power grab by one alt health faction or Altruism Embodied?<\/p>\n<p>* Will licensing help the state find and bring to justice any malevolent alt health practitioners who might land on our fair shores?<\/p>\n<p>* Will licensing pave the way for insurance reimbursements of alt health therapies?<\/p>\n<p>Rochester&#8217;s Dale Volker is one of the state senators backing the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When there&#8217;s no license that says so. Or something. A Village Voice article covers a campaign underway in New York State to restrict the title &#8220;Doctor of Naturopathy&#8221; to practitioners who hold four-year degrees &#8220;from an accredited naturopathic college.&#8221; Among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/whens-a-naturopath-not\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[788,787,67,66],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-rochester-new-york","tag-alternative-healthcare","tag-naturopathy","tag-new-york","tag-rochester"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}