<p>I want to learn to cure and heal people, but i dont want to go to medical school or be a doctor.
I want to be a healer, if you know what I mean.
Like you know, when people are sick they go to you and you give them treatments or medications but you dont have to follow those boring doctor rules or wear white coats.</p>
<p>Like if I go in the wild and someone gets injured or sick, I know which herbs to use to treat them, not just know which medicine to prescribe</p>
<p>What should I do?</p>
<p>Study biology?</p>
<p>That’s a difficult career choice. You won’t have the credentials or education most people would look for in a healthcare provider. You could try naturopathic medicine (hopefully correct spelling). Not as well known as allopathic (MD), but it may fit you. Good luck.</p>
<p>You could become a paramedic, or a wilderness medicine specialist for the forest rangers I guess. Homeopathic and naturalistic medicine may be for you, though it depends on your definition of “healing”.</p>
<p>Homeopathy, IMHO, is psuedoscience, but you may want to look into Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) or Native American Herbal Medicine.</p>
<p>They are, essentially by their very nature, pseudoscience. We typically call medicine back by legitimate and copious scientific research modern medicine.</p>
<p>Find a medicine man or a shaman and become his apprentice.</p>
<p>Become a naturopath.</p>
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I was in love with you
I told the witch doctor
I was in love with you
And then the witch doctor
He told me what to do</p>
<p>He said that</p>
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Walla walla, bing bang
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<p>You may also want to look into Osteopathy or Chiropractic medicine, though be careful: I get the sense from people I talk to that these types of degrees are more limiting than an MD.</p>
<p>Naturopathic medicine would be the way to go… Except you would have to Naturopathic medical school, which would take four years to complete, the same duration of time that the completion of an Allopathic or Osteopathic institution would take. </p>
<p>Another option would be to join and learn the ways of a primitive African tribe, eventually becoming a shaman (after several years of apprenticeship, of course.)</p>
<p>Good luck with whichever profession you choose to pursue.</p>
<p>I hear becoming the Messiah is a great career choice.</p>
<p>hmm i don’t know what exactly would fit you. there are several other careers with medicine- medical assistant, LPN, registered nurse, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, paramedic, and many many more.
if you are interested in healing by finding cures research is always an option</p>
<p>If I wasn’t going to be a doctor, I would be a paramedic.</p>
<p>i would suggest maybe shadowing an indian medicine man or something pertaining to that.</p>
<p>“You may also want to look into Osteopathy or Chiropractic medicine”</p>
<p>-These are doctors. They trained just as much as MD. They also earned about the same and have the same respect in medical community. </p>
<p>There is one farmer in Mexico. But it is not allowed in the USA, got to have a license to cure people. Sorry, must be great dissapointment.</p>
<p>Osteopathy yes, chiropractic no. They don’t have 3-7 year residencies plus fellowship for one and they most certainly are not as respected in the medical community.</p>
<p>^Well, my chiro is the one that actually has helped me and my D. when no other MD’s of various kinds of specialties (including the ones that had huge waiting llists) were able to do anything about our problems. My D. was only 10 and had a headache for 5 weeks straight. We were scared and took her to all kind of MD’s, including having CAT scan, MRI and whatever you could imagine. She could not even take stairs to second floor, my H. had to carry her to her bedroom. When she had her relief after first visit to chiro, she asked me why I did not take her to him right away. She went to few more sessions and was back to normal. We pitched all crazy drugs prescribed by neurologist (waited for few weeks to see this MD) that were not helping a bit. Later, chiro has helped me with my back pain and at different instance - virtigo. He was willing to spend time with both of us, talk to us, educate us about our conditions, relate them to our various activities. Others do not spend a second listenning to you, you have to come to the office with correct dignosis just to have a test to prove that you were correct and get prescription for it. I do not know what kind of training my chiro got, but he has mentioned that he went to school for many years just like MD’s, except to different school.</p>
<p>That is all perfectly fine, but ultimately while you may appreciate and respect your chiro as much or more than MDs, it is not true among the medical professions. Further, while chiro school is many years (4) long, their post-graduate training does not compete with MDs. Try an osteopath for your main PCP if you like the spinal manipulation stuff.</p>
<p>In the State of Washington, naturopaths are almost on an even level with allopathic doctors. There’s also acupuncturists, psychotherapists, various kinds of alternative medicine practitioners, ayurvedic medicine… unfortunately, they also have schools and degrees and such.</p>