Rebecca Shatsky: Do not ask your doctor to order labs your naturopath or integrative doc thinks you should have

Rebecca Shatsky shared on Twitter:

”PSA: Do not ask your doctor to order labs your naturopath or integrative doc thinks you should have. That’s insurance fraud. For everything a doc orders there must be a legitimate diagnosis/reason. If your naturopath wants them they can order them.”

Source: Rebecca Shatsky/Twitter

Rebecca Shatsky is an Associate Professor at UC San Diego Health, Breast Medical Oncology Co-Team Leader, Scientific Director of Inflammatory and Triple Negative Breast Cancer Program. She is a member of the NCCN guideline panel for Genetic/High Risk Assessment of Breast, Ovarian and Pancreatic Cancer and the panel for the treatment of Cancer Associated Pain. Her work has been published in JAMA Oncology, Cancer Cell and Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, among others. Dr. Shatsky is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.