Will AI Replace Naturopathic Physicians?

Document patients' histories, including identifying data, chief complaints, illnesses, previous medical or family histories, or psychosocial characteristics.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Educate patients about health care management.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Advise patients about therapeutic exercise and nutritional medicine regimens.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnostic purposes.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Administer, dispense, or prescribe natural medicines, such as food or botanical extracts, herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, nutraceuticals, and amino acids.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Interview patients to document symptoms and health histories.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Diagnose health conditions, based on patients' symptoms and health histories, laboratory and diagnostic radiology test results, or other physiological measurements, such as electrocardiograms and electroencephalographs.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Administer treatments or therapies, such as homeopathy, hydrotherapy, Oriental or Ayurvedic medicine, electrotherapy, and diathermy, using physical agents including air, heat, cold, water, sound, or ultraviolet light to catalyze the body to heal itself.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Consult with other health professionals to provide optimal patient care, referring patients to traditional health care professionals as necessary.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Order diagnostic imaging procedures such as radiographs (x-rays), ultrasounds, mammograms, and bone densitometry tests, or refer patients to other health professionals for these procedures.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Maintain professional development through activities such as postgraduate education, continuing education, preceptorships, and residency programs.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Obtain medical records from previous physicians or other health care providers for the purpose of patient evaluation.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Conduct periodic public health maintenance activities such as immunizations and screenings for diseases and disease risk factors.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Perform venipuncture or skin pricking to collect blood samples.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Monitor updates from public health agencies to keep abreast of health trends.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Perform mobilizations and high-velocity adjustments to joints or soft tissues, using principles of massage, stretching, or resistance.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Prescribe synthetic drugs under the supervision of medical doctors or within the allowances of regulatory bodies.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Report patterns of patients' health conditions, such as disease status and births, to public health agencies.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Treat minor cuts, abrasions, or contusions.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Perform minor surgical procedures, such as removing warts, moles, or cysts, sampling tissues for skin cancer or lipomas, and applying or removing sutures.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.