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

“Consult with other health professionals to provide optimal patient care, referring patients to traditional health care professionals as necessary.” is a core task performed by Naturopathic Physicians. Among the occupation's 20 rated tasks, workers place it 12th by importance (#9 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient care. in Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Assist others to access additional services or resources. in Assisting and Caring for Others

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.024% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• Most common interaction: learning
• Average autonomy of the AI: 3.5 (1–5; higher = more autonomous)
• 97% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Working with AI vs. handing it off

Of the AI conversations mapped to this task, the split between people working alongside AI and people delegating the task to it.

How people interact with AI on this task

Other tasks in this occupation

• Document patients' histories, including identifying data, chief complaints, illnesses, previous medical or family histories, or psychosocial characteristics. · importance 5.0
• Educate patients about health care management. · importance 4.9
• Advise patients about therapeutic exercise and nutritional medicine regimens. · importance 4.9
• Conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnostic purposes. · importance 4.9
• Administer, dispense, or prescribe natural medicines, such as food or botanical extracts, herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, nutraceuticals, and amino acids. · importance 4.8
• Interview patients to document symptoms and health histories. · importance 4.8
• 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. · importance 4.7
• 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. · importance 4.4
• 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. · importance 4.3
• Maintain professional development through activities such as postgraduate education, continuing education, preceptorships, and residency programs. · importance 4.2
• Obtain medical records from previous physicians or other health care providers for the purpose of patient evaluation. · importance 4.0
• Conduct periodic public health maintenance activities such as immunizations and screenings for diseases and disease risk factors. · importance 3.9
• Perform venipuncture or skin pricking to collect blood samples. · importance 3.7
• Monitor updates from public health agencies to keep abreast of health trends. · importance 3.7

See all tasks on the Naturopathic Physicians page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Consult with other health professionals to provide optimal patient care, referring patients to traditional health care professionals as necessary.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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}