Dear Editor: I was frustrated that the July 18 letter on alternative medicine (“Protect alternative health access”) repeats incorrect information about efforts to license naturopathic doctors in Colorado. Currently, there are no standards governing who can call themselves a naturopathic doctor in the state, which means that someone who’s taken a three-month course over the Internet and someone who’s gone to a four-year post-graduate naturopathic medical school can both call themselves naturopathic doctors, even though they have vastly different levels of education and training in natural medicine. This just doesn’t make sense. The bill that failed in the Legislature last spring would have required anyone practicing as a naturopathic doctor to obtain a license. Licenses would only be given to those who had gone to four-year...
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