Dear List,

Apologies for quoting this whole post, but I think some
things need to be said about it.

First of all, it came onto my screen with the following
in the "From" box:
>
> Mister Bernarr Zovluck is a Fraud <[log in to unmask]>


I do not consider this to be the name of the writer; It was made to appear
that
the post was from "Mr." Zovluck; hence, this post is not only anonymous, but
attempted to misrepresent who wrote it.

Secondly, in Dr. Bernarr Zovluck's resume, I find:
>
> I graduated as a doctor of
> chiropractic and naturopathy from U.S. chiropractic and naturopathic
colleges
> and as a doctor of medicine, from a foreign medical college. I graduated
from
> a U.S. theological seminary, as a doctor of divinity and as an ordained
> minister. I never went into practice in the U.S.A., as a medical doctor.


This seems straightforward enough to me. Dr. Zovluck has earned a D.C. and a
D.D., and has a "medical" degree from abroad, but is not pretending to have
a U.S. M.D. It seems to me that he has the right to call himself "Dr." three
times over.

While M.D.'s in this country may wish that they had a monopoly on medical
care, so far they have not totally eliminated the alternative practices,
thank
heavens. While doctors may take and believe the Hippocratic Oath, I doubt
anyone
can say that they are able to live up to it on a daily basis, whatever their
intentions. A large fraction of medicine is an attempt to fix iatrogenic
("doctor-caused") diseases.

So, "_shabby" person, come out of the closet, and understand that many people
without M.D.'s are perfectly entitled to use the term "Dr."

Susan Kline


At 12:53 PM 08/25/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>
> My apologies for not posting specifically to the topic,
> but I wanted to bring up some important things.
>
> Mister Bernarr Zovluck is not a medical doctor.
> His insistant advice should not be followed
> due to the fact that more interested in trying
> to get people to believe what he is saying.
>
> There is a thing in medicine called the Hypocratic Oath.
> In a nutshell it is an oath doctors take swearing
> to do no harm to their patients.
>
> Mister Bernarr Zovluck is not concerned with doing no
> harm. He is more concerned tring to get people to
> follow him.
>
> Mister Bernarr Zovluck, you do not present any of
> your arguments in a scientific manner.
>
> Finally, PRACTICING MEDICINE WITHOUT A LICENSE IS
> A CRIME.