I just heard Michael Harris of CFRA mention this, and quickly found an article in the New Zealand Herald about the story.
A doctor, who was getting flack from an organization about leaving his medical clinics open after hours, has decided to turn them all into brothels.
| A disgruntled doctor plans to open the first licensed brothel in the Far North.
Neil Benson aims to base his new venture in his former medical centre at Coopers Beach. In the switch from medical practice to the world’s oldest profession, it will be called Whalers. |
All this because he wasn’t allowed to stay open later to be profitable. Not that I condone the prostitution, but I do think the guy has a right to earn a living and not lose money. Read on…
| A person in the sex industry had looked at renting the unused medical centre and said it would be a perfect brothel.
‘I thought, why don’t we run it ourselves? It would be a viable business and I was unemployed.” While he had never considered working in the sex industry, Dr Benson sees similarities between the world’s oldest profession and medicine. “It’s about providing a private service and maintaining confidentiality, which is what my medical practice was about – so it’s not a big leap, really. “Everything I have ever done is high quality. The standards of my medical practice were high and that will cross over to the brothel environment.” Dr Benson said the service would cater for the “top end” of the market. “It will be officially registered as a brothel and it will meet public health criteria,” he said. “It will employ beautiful women who are highly paid in their profession and who know what is expected from them in their line of work.” |
Is this what we have to look forward to from our doctors? In some US States, you can go get a private massage from a registered therapist (not the illegal kind), and they provide you with service in private, paid for in cash by the customer. I am not coming straight out and saying we need private clinics, but providing services from a private clinic at the public expense, when monitored will ease our overloaded system.
Not that I think the local “Med-Team” or “Appletree” Clinics will become “Sex-Team” Clinics, but you can’t help but wonder about your own society when people who legitimately want to help the system, and are qualified to do so, are kept from their practice by red tape. It just means more red tape for you and I to get the treatment we want, and according to Quebec Superior Courts, deserve as part of our Charter rights