For Megan Heimer who spreads misinformation and...

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www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/2014-chiropractors-naturopaths-and-acupuncturists-lose-in-state-legislatures/

[NewOrleans]

Thee are lots of goodies in there, but this is the one most relevant. I am terrified that quacking frauds are fighting for more power to unleash their garbage. But I am delighted that states aren't having it. Check out the CO part in particular.


During 2013-2014, 10 naturopathic licensing bills were introduced, all of which attempted to give naturopaths a broad scope of practice. Treatments specifically permitted in some bills include colonic irrigation and prescription of “natural” medicines, vitamins, minerals and homeopathic substances, including administration by injection or IV. Pennsylvania would allow “visceral manipulation.” An interesting feature of many licensing bills is a provision allowing naturopaths to perform or order diagnostic testing, such as x-rays or those “commonly used” by MD PCPs, as long as it is “consistent with naturopathic education and training.” This is the same sort of open-ended permission we are seeing in chiropractic bills, defaulting to the schools to determine the scope of practice.

Eight of these naturopathic licensing bills were rejected (New York, Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa, Idaho, Rhode Island) leaving naturopaths licensed or registered in only 17 states and D.C. One bill, in New Jersey, is still pending because NJ is one of the two states to carry 2014 legislation over to 2015.

Only one licensing bill, in Maryland, passed, albeit with a scope far short of what they wanted. Maryland will not permit naturopaths to call themselves primary care physicians (or even “physicians,” for that matter). Nor will it allow them to prescribe drugs, use colon hydrotherapy or practice under the jurisdiction of their own board. Instead, they will be under the jurisdiction of the Maryland Board of Physicians, which is currently working on regulations, a subject I covered in a previous post.

Naturopaths also fought to have restrictions on their practice removed in Colorado. In 2013, after numerous attempts by naturopaths (also here), the legislature finally passed a registration (but not licensing) bill. The law prevents them from seeing patients under 2 years of age at all, and places severe limitations on their ability to treat patients between 2 and 8: they must disclose they are not physicians, recommend that the child have a relationship with a licensed pediatric practitioner, and give parents the CDC-recommended vaccination schedule. One of the main purposes of these restrictions was to thwart their efforts to dissuade parents from vaccinating their children. Fortunately, the bill watering down patient protections did not pass and those restrictions remain in place. On the other hand, a Colorado bill to eliminate their ability to prescribe drugs in their formulary and perform minor office procedures did not pass.

Another bill designed to protect patients was passed in Hawaii but only after having been defanged as it moved through the legislature. What began as a bill requiring that naturopaths who wanted to prescribe drugs have the same education as an MD or DO ended up as a law requiring more continuing education.

Naturopaths did get an expansion of their scope of practice in 3 states, but it was significant only in Connecticut, a topic I covered in an earlier post. (A humorous aside: There is a slide presentation, “About Naturopathic Medicine,” on the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians’ website comparing naturopathic “medical” school education to that of the Yale School of Medicine. You’re in good hands, Connecticut!) They can now practice “telemedicine” in Arizona and perform minor office procedures in Utah. A practice expansion bill in Alaska failed.

[NewOrleans]

Omg. You need to see this. It was referenced in the piece above. It is amazing.  GO LOOK AT THIS SLIDESHOW!  

www.naturopathic.org/medicine

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Jan 11, 2015 18:39:23 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Omg. You need to see this. It was referenced in the piece above. It is amazing.  GO LOOK AT THIS SLIDESHOW!  

www.naturopathic.org/medicine

Lord! crazy shit.

[NewOrleans]

Jan 11, 2015 22:09:41 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Jan 11, 2015 18:39:23 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Omg. You need to see this. It was referenced in the piece above. It is amazing.  GO LOOK AT THIS SLIDESHOW!  

www.naturopathic.org/medicine

 
Among other things,why were there no citations to back up any of the data presented in the slides.  All those numbers were naked! WTF?

Evidence? We don need no stinking evidence!

 

[omgzombies]

Ugh, my aunt is a naturapath and homeopath. Woman drives me bonkers. She was going on during Christmas dinner about how bad vaccines are for kids. Crazy ass woman.

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Hello,

I'm new here, and Megan Heimer who spreads lies and misinformation is a psycho. I have some neat pics of her trolling someone who is suffering from Crohn's.

www.facebook.com/Meganheimerlies

[NewOrleans]

Omfg

[jln]

Crazy pants getting crazier. Isn't there an oil for that?

[mominatrix]

holy shit.

[katfco]

Jan 24, 2015 12:48:04 GMT -5 jln said:

Crazy pants getting crazier. Isn't there an oil for that?

Actually, it looks like those posts are 5 years old, so I think it's more of "crazy pants has been crazy for some time." 

[NewOrleans]

"I am a genius." A GENIUS.

[NewOrleans]

And she said she went to med school.  

[katfco]

Jan 24, 2015 12:57:37 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

"I am a genius." A GENIUS.

pssshh, aren't we all? 

[NewOrleans]

Do you think holistic medicine can cure compulsive lying?

[One Girl In All The World]

Holy shit.

[stealthmom]

Jan 24, 2015 12:36:46 GMT -5 @spinster said:

Hello,

I'm new here, and Megan Heimer who spreads lies and misinformation is a psycho. I have some neat pics of her trolling someone who is suffering from Crohn's.

www.facebook.com/Meganheimerlies

welcome welcome!

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I emailed her about the youtube comments that I found, she wrote back and basically said she'd sue me if I tried to contact her ever again, and then she blocked me from her website. So I decided to post pictures of her comments on the internet, to immortalize them.

She's bonkers, man. I told her I'd pray for her, that pissed her off pretty bad.

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My favorite part about her comments is that she's trolling someone who is suffering from a REALLY painful and horrible disease and telling him that its his own fault he's sick, he's sick because he doesn't take Dr. Heimer's advice. She's a nasty b-word. Fuck Megan Heimer who spreads lies and misinformation.

[jillboston]

Jan 24, 2015 13:27:08 GMT -5 @spinster said:

I emailed her about the youtube comments that I found, she wrote back and basically said she'd sue me if I tried to contact her ever again, and then she blocked me from her website. So I decided to post pictures of her comments on the internet, to immortalize them.

She's bonkers, man. I told her I'd pray for her, that pissed her off pretty bad.

she threatened to sue GBCN as well. We said bring it on after we report you to the various licensing entities in your state for holding yourself out as a doctor and an attorney. She rewrote her credentials on her blog and ran away.

[cattledogkisses]

Well thank goodness these nutters don't seem to be getting anywhere, because there is no way in hell that people who are not doctors should be allowed to prescribe prescription drugs, order diagnostic tests, or masquerade as pediatricians/PCPs.

Naturopathy is not medicine, FFS.

[Velvetshady]

Just for old times sake...





















Megan Heimer is a quack.

"Dr." Megan Heimer is neither a doctor nor an attorney

Megan Heimer spreads misinformation and compromises public health.

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Someone that knows her mother in law told me that Megan never even had Crohns, but rather her mother in law did and Megan just thought it'd be fun to pretend she beat it with macrobiotics. She's truly nutty, and it's scary how many people eat up her health advice. Like, I'm genuinely frightened for her followers.

[josieposy]

I'LL SUE!!

[saz]

I haven't really followed the Megan Heimer stuff but wow she is so evil! And is she like 15? I was expecting some middle aged woman but she looks like a teenager lol

[WOT?*]

This is a new FB page with five year old comments?

OTOH, I just went to the Living Whole "personal blog" on FB and Megan Heimer, who spreads lies and misinformation and is not a doctor or a lawyer, has 11,562 "likes" - including my dad's half-sister (who I don't recall ever meeting but we're FB friends thanks to my sister who found her). UGH! Should I say anything to her? She's a senior-citizen right-wing pro-life nutbag from what I can tell.

[NewOrleans]

I have so many questions. So many.

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Jan 24, 2015 14:06:36 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

This is a new FB page with five year old comments?

OTOH, I just went to the Living Whole "personal blog" on FB and Megan Heimer, who spreads lies and misinformation and is not a doctor or a lawyer, has 11,562 "likes" - including my dad's half-sister (who I don't recall ever meeting but we're FB friends thanks to my sister who found her). UGH! Should I say anything to her? She's a senior-citizen right-wing pro-life nutbag from what I can tell.

I just made that Facebook page for fun. I found those YouTube comments a few months ago, I'm going to see if Megan notices my FB page and threatens to sue me for that too

[WOT?*]

So, what brought you out to play?

[andrealynn]

I have to know, did you take the FB page name/info from our genius re-branding of Megan Heimer, who spreads misinformation and harms the public health?