From Doctor to Pimp
January 28th, 2006 at 9:42 am by David FarrarSo what do you do when the Government makes it too hard for you to carry on as a general practitioner?
You turn your surgery into a brothel!
I suspect one will no longer be able to claim the visits off ACC!
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January 28th, 2006 at 9:49 am
Yet when I approached the New Zealand Film Commission to make a tastefull and thought-provoking art film based on this very premise they turned me down!
Vote:January 28th, 2006 at 11:03 am
I suspect one will no longer be able to claim the visits off ACC!
- well you never know, I mean the govt funds lots of other dubious stuff, so y’know, perhaps they will find a way!
Vote:January 28th, 2006 at 11:10 am
A knocking-shop, where the owner can write scripts for Viagra!
How useful!
Vote:January 28th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Now that’s holistic treatment!
Vote:January 28th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
and with a Dr running show, the girls will be damn clean.
Vote:January 28th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
I would have never picked ‘Whaler’s’ for a name!
Bad mental images involving ‘beer goggles’and gals that where built more along ‘load bearing’ lines, than ‘child bearing’!
‘Dr Feelgood’s’ sounds better to me!
Vote:January 28th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
He could dress the girls in grass skirts and claim to be carrying out traditional maori healing.
Vote:January 28th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Naming the brothel Whalers reminds me of the pre-colonial township of Kororareka, situated opposite Samuel Marsden’s missionary position in Paihia. Guess which town had a better night life.
Vote:January 29th, 2006 at 10:24 am
This is the kind of entrepreneurialism the health sector so desperately needs. Make this man head of the dept.
Vote:January 29th, 2006 at 11:25 am
Naming the brothel Whalers reminds me of the pre-colonial township of Kororareka,
Actually at the time Kororareka was known as the “Brothel of the Pacific”…so his antecendents are excellent.
Vote:January 29th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Actually it was “Hellhole of the Pacific”. And Dr Benson is not overly popular at Coopers Beach so it’s likely this is to get back at the community.
Vote:January 31st, 2006 at 11:50 am
Mark, in that last comment, has it right I believe.
There has been a major brou-ha-ha between this guy and the local RHO going back some years.
I can admire his sense of humour, but I suspect that there are darker motives involved.
Vote:February 24th, 2006 at 9:22 am
He couldn’t run a surgery successfully, and that was a business he knew something about. The brothel, if it really opens (and I haven’t seen any expensive furnishings, or anything else going into the building, so I have my doubts about that) will probably meet a similar fate: closed by Christmas. Personally, I think it is either to stick his finger in the eye of the community as pay back for not supporting his clinic, or to rile us up enough to get someone to burn it down so he can claim it on insurance! It has gotten the village into the news, so it may have the opposite effect to what he intended and bring more tourists up here to take in the native beauty (brothel or no brothel, its a wonderful place to live).
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