this country with primary care doctors. there is a big shortage of them and it s getting worse so a lot of states are making up for the shortfall by allowing people for practice a form of alternative medicine, these are called naturalo naturopathic doctors. they are not mds but have some of the powers. that has some in of the medical community concerned. what is this naturopath? not a homeopath. it s a natuopathic doctor, they are doctors who believe in the power of nature to heal the body and they use national or natural ways to help that process along. they do go to school for four years, they have extensive lab training during those four years, but residencies are not required, and many people, especially those in traditional medicine, say they re not qualified for primary care. most of these university of washington med school