Chiropractor Says The Pain Is Something That Only He Can Fix With 18 More Appointments

12 December, 2016. 15:33

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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.