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Guest columnist Sina Leslie Smith: Illinois can offer more health care choices with naturopathic physician licensure
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Have a headache? High blood pressure? Cholesterol? There is a pill for that. Culturally, we have been trained that whenever something goes wrong, we reach for the medicine cabinet.

As a medical doctor, licensed acupuncturist, and advocate for naturopathic care, I have worked with, and learned from, naturopathic physicians since 2009. After earning my M.D., I was a resident learning to be a general surgeon until a repetitive stress injury prevented me from completing the final 14 months of my training. It was a naturopathic physician who helped me to change the eating patterns that were affecting inflammatory pathways in my body and making my arm pain and paralysis worse.

by signing up you agree to our terms of service Also, similar to other practitioners, they must maintain their licensure by completing continuing medical education credits each year and upholding the continually evolving standards of care in their profession.

In other words, naturopathic doctors complete rigorous training that is similar to other licensed health professionals in Illinois, but with a slightly different focus and with slightly different tools in their healing toolbox.

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