Doctors president calls No invasive intervention by naturopaths

The president of the German Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, says, according to Tagesspiegel: "To avert danger for the population, one should abolish the naturopathic profession altogether." At the least, however, should prevent medical practitioners all invasive procedures and cancer treatments.

professionalization?
In the future, non-medical practitioners should undergo a uniform examination. Currently, the individual federal states regulate the admission to health practitioners differently.

The president of the German Medical Association wants to forbid non-medical practitioners to treat cancer. (Image: psdesign1 / fotolia.com)

Montgomery fears shit
Montgomery says, according to Tagesspiegel: "If the exam graduates then get the pseudo-seal of a certified medical practitioner, we considered that a very gross patient delusion." For this examination would not even correspond to the approach of a qualification of a physician.

Agree with the resolutions of the medical day
As early as May 2017, the 120th German Medical Council demanded that legislators exclude non-medical practitioners from all invasive measures and cancer treatment.

Sick the sick to the doctor
According to the doctor's day, non-medical practitioners would have to send patients to the doctor, whose suffering would go beyond disturbances of health.

No health profession
The delegates of the Medical Day said clearly that non-medical practitioner is not a health professional. Non-medical practitioners would be outside of the otherwise clearly defined in the health care professional qualifications for patient care. It is precisely this activity outside current standards and recognized mechanisms of action that characterizes non-medical practitioners.

Comprehensive reform required
The "Münsteraner Kreis", an association of doctors and scientists, calls for a comprehensive reform of the naturopathic profession. Until now, naturopaths only have to make sure that their activities do not endanger their health in order to be recognized.

Wrong impression
According to the doctors and scientists, this would give the false impression that non-medical practitioners are an alternative to trained doctors. The expert demand is: to professionalise, control or abolish the alternative practitioner profession.

Dead after "alternative cancer therapy"
The topic "Naturopaths and Cancer Therapy" hit the headlines in 2016, when several people died shortly after a non-medical practitioner from the "Biologischer Krebszentrum Bracht" treated them with "alternative methods". The responsible person was reported for negligent homicide and negligent assault.

Prohibited practices are no longer possible
If non-medical practitioners could no longer use invasive methods, widespread treatments by the non-medical practitioner scene fell flat today: first of all infusion therapies with oxygen, ozone or autologous blood, but also, for example, neural therapy. In surgery, naturopaths would have no more business.

No possibility for quality controls?
According to the medical day, quality controls for non-medical practitioners are not possible at all. Without generally recognized quality standards, there is no basis for quality control. Such a standard is lacking for alternative practitioners. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)