Upholding the Standards of Medical Freedom and Breadth of Scope in Naturopathic Medical Practice
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| The overall tendency in medicine in general, and in naturopathic medicine in particular, is to bend to political and malpractice insurance pressures, and to erode and restrict the scope of practice to an increasingly narrow range of patients and treatment protocols. |
| In response to this tendency, our organizations are needed to uphold the necessary breadth in our professional practice, in accordance with the original intent and role of naturopathic medicine as a comprehensive system of medicine, designed to offer the maximum range of effective and safe treatments, and to uphold patient choice among those treatments. |
"We are a forum of peers as well as public members dedicated to embracing the breadth of naturopathic medicine, including its many diverse practice modalities in a non-judgmental way."
Kenneth Proefrock, NMD
President, ANRI / NORI
"The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom. . . Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who want doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers."
Benjamin Rush, MD (1745 - 1813)
Colonial Physician and Signer of the Declaration of Independence