If you google ‘chiropractic’ you might get the impression that an unusual number of US chiros are outright perverts. Here are four current cases that I found instantly without any in-depth seraching:
A “Christian chiropractor” is facing several criminal charges after at least eight former clients have accused him of rape and sexual assault. Roc Byrd, 61, of Danville, who worked as a chiropractor for Cornerstone Chiropractic in Avon, is facing one felony count of rape, five felony counts of sexual battery and four misdemeanor counts of battery. He is accused of raping a client, touching clients inappropriately over and under their clothes during appointments without consent and pressing his genitals up against multiple patients. Byrd identified himself as a practicing Christian and reportedly began each of his chiropractic appointments by praying with clients.
A Warren chiropractor faces significant legal problems and a criminal investigation into how he allegedly treated one of his patients. Officials say he sells himself as one of only a handful of Michigan “Chiropractic Neurologists,” but the former patient claims he is a sexual predator and offers video as apparent proof. The case involves Dr. John Pispidikis of the Spinal Recovery Center. The complaint was filed Friday (April 19) morning, which surprised the doctor. The patient involved remains unnamed in the civil court documents, but she claims the doctor groped her during a physical exam last February. But she had no proof, so she claims she went out and got some.
The Oklahoma Board of Chiropractic Examiners (OBCE) has ordered the Back Stop’s only chiropractor, Mark Kimble to surrender his license by next Monday after several sexual impropriety allegations against him have surfaced. Oklahoma Board of Chiropractic Examiners confirmed with KFOR that there are seven alleged victims of Kimble’s who have come forward.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is looking for possible victims of a chiropractor accused of sexual assault. Richard Carnow, 65, was arrested by authorities on March 13 on four felony counts of sexual battery. Carnow is a chiropractor in San Dimas in the San Gabriel Valley, the Sheriff’s Department says. He’s accused of sexually assaulting multiple adult women between June 2023 and August 2023. Officials did not say if his alleged victims were current or former patients. Investigators say the nature of the alleged crimes have led them to believe there may be additional victims and they are asking for the public’s help to find them.
Yes, I know, these are (according to chiros’ assurances) regrettable, isolated cases – nothing to worry about!
But perhaps these assertions are wrong and there is a problem after all?
I am reminded of my post from 2021; let me refresh your memory:
Two chiropractors conducted a retrospective review of publicly available data from the California Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Their aim was to determine categories of offense, experience, and gender of disciplined doctors of chiropractic (DC) in California and compare them with disciplined medical physicians in California. The DC disciplinary categories, in descending order, were
- fraud (44%),
- sexual boundary issues (22%),
- other offences (13%),
- abuse of alcohol or drugs (10%),
- negligence or incompetence (6%),
- poor supervision (2%),
- mental impairment (.3%).
The authors concluded that the professions differ in the major reasons for disciplinary actions. Two thirds (67%) of the doctors of chiropractic were disciplined for fraud and sexual boundary issues, compared with 59% for negligence and substance misuse for medical physicians. Additional study in each profession may reveal methods to identify causes and possible intervention for those who are at high risk.
The abstract of the paper does not provide comparisons to with the medical profession. Here they are; relative to doctors, chiropractors are:
- 2 x more likely to be involved in malpractice,
- 9 x more likely to commit fraud,
- 2 x more likely to transgress sexual boundaries.
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Could it be, I askmyself, that there is something deeply wrong with the chiropractic profession? Could it perhaps be that chiro schools do not have a good hand when it comes to student recruitment? Could it be that chiro schools teach too little medical ethics, or none at all?
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Regarding the percentage and the study, Apple vs orange?
2 x more likely to transgress sexual boundaries.
“The physicians in the medical study cover a broad spectrum of specialties, including radiology, psychiatry, and ophthalmology that have little or no primary physical contact with patients.“
“The combination of infrequent patient interaction and limited physical contact would realistically affect the number of complaints for sexual boundary violations.”
so glad you found a way to white-wash the results;
oooops: sexual transgressions can be committed also with non-patients – might even be more likely; who knows?
it’s called: study limitations.
is it really?
yes
another factor to consider, is this similar between professions?
“many cases of physician sexual abuse of patients go unreported”
“many hospitals and health care organizations regularly ignore or circumvent reporting requirements for medical boards regarding impaired physicians”
“A 2006 report found that two-thirds of all complaints received by medical boards were closed either due to inadequate evidence to support the charges or because these cases were resolved informally, through a notice of concern or a similar communication with the involved physician.12”
“medical boards did not discipline 70% of the physicians who had peer-review sanctions or malpractice payments made on their behalf due to sexual misconduct.5”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6614523/#CR12
apple vs orange?
Prince Andrew is still not imprisoned
What could possibly go wrong; the feeble-minded faffing with the backs of the feeble-minded?
The efforts of DC (Dopey Conartist) to try to whitewash the levels of criminality of his fellow non-professionals clearly illustrate the delusions of the feeble-minded.
I am utterly sick of SCAM and the delusionals who pretend to do something, but only steal people’s hard earned.