12 December, 2016. 15:33

ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact

GAVIN TURNER WAS ON a plane to New Zealand last week when an air hostess asked if there was a doctor on the plane.

He confidently rose his hand, considering he’d just graduated from university earlier this year. Despite his experience, the 24-year-old knew he had to step up to the plate. He was ready.

“I’m a doctor,” he said. “What’s going on?”

As it so happened, a man in business class was having a stroke and the flight crew were debating whether to turn the plane around or keep pressing on to Aotearoa.

Arriving on the scene, with 68-year-old civil engineer Graham Coolidge speaking in tongues as the left side of him slowly died, Gavin had to explain that he wasn’t that type of doctor, he was a chiropractor.

Mr Turner is a part of a growing trend which has seen chiropractors galavanting as doctors.

The CSIRO has reported that nearly half of all back, spine and neck specialists in Australia use the title of ‘doctor’ – which has lead to the industry and legitimate medical professionals feeling disappointed.

“They’re not real doctors,” said a Royal College of Surgeons spokesman. “It’s a pseudoscience.”

“It’s especially hard when they’re mistaken for real medical professionals, instead of the mumbo-jumbo witch doctors they are. Don’t get me wrong, they’re good and shit, but they’re not real doctors.”

More to come.

3 COMMENTS

  1. Interesting article …… given that no Gavin Turner is registered on the AHPRA website as a chiropractor, the vague CSIRO report and the unknown Royal College of Surgeons spokesperson.

    Thought there was a smell coming from my computer when reading it, hence its time to call bull$#it on this article!!!

    An article clearly geared for a special interest group to be able to post on twitter.

  2. Interesting article given no Gavin Turner is listed on the AHPRA website as a registered chiropractor. Combine this with vague CSIRO report and the unnamed spokesmen from the Royal College of Surgeons (which is the UK college) and it’s time to call bulls#&t on this article

    The perfect article to be posted on a special interest groups twitter.

  3. I love those responses from nearly a year ago. Identical, and the chiro goofs actually took the article seriously. Oh you chiropractor, you crack me up with your funny ways.

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