Yes, I know I’m spoiling you after three posts yesterday and one today already, but I had to share this snippet with you.
(Incidentally, I’ve swapped back to the classic editor for this post as I wanted to add four links, to “three”, “posts”, “yesterday”, “today” and “snippet”. The first four are linking back to previous posts, but I can’t see an easy way to do this in the new editor.)
It amazes me that a doctor has been practising without qualifications for 22 years, but in a way I’m not surprised as she was a psychiatrist and I’ve always been suspicious of them as a profession. It’s got to be the easiest type of doctor to impersonate as it’s all snake oil, smoke, mirrors and theories. I’ve never heard of a fake brain surgeon, for instance. (Apologies if any of my readers are psychiatrists and feel I’m belittling your hard-won professional qualification – but they would have discovered a bogus heart surgeon a lot quicker).
Having said that – there have been fake surgeons – read this if you want to learn more.
It’s a very interesting area, though as someone points out in a related article there are properly qualified doctors who are a dangerous liability, so it’s not just the imposters you have to worry about.
There have also been some properly qualified criminal doctors, as the case of local boy Harold Shipman shows.
Fortunately, most doctors are qualified, competent and affable. (I thought I’d mention that in case any of mine are reading this. There are, after all, thousands of good doctors for every bad one that ends up in the papers, and, apart from that, you don’t want to mess with anyone who can order a prostate exam for you.)
Finally…
like the above comments, and don’t forget “the study” folk…one year they say such and such is good for you for an ailment and then a few years later it is back on the naughty list. Sometimes we give to much creedence to what “they” say. Love the cartoon by the way.
It was a favourite joke of my father-in-law, who was a physiotherapist, though it works better with psychotherapist.
As for health experts… 🙂
Great cartoon. Take any profession and you’ll find good and bad. I know because I knew a great range in mine 🙂
Julia’s Dad started off as a practitioner of Swedish Massage and ended up as a Pysiotherapist. He used to like that joke. You are right about the great range of people in any profession, but there seems to be something about medecine which attracts imposters.
Agreed
Anything to do with doctors is a worry, good or bad.
Julia just booked us in for flu vaccinations – three o’clock in the afternoon of the only day off we get together.
Not quite the excursion I would have chosen. 🙂
Oh, my!
Yes, it can be a worry.