GOsC Truth – Dr Julia Spivack

As the truth about the NHS hits the headlines……..

Now a gag on doctors and nurses: Hundreds being prevented from exposing poor care in hospitals by `Stalinist` rules

Gary Walker case is just the tip of the iceberg, says health boss
Secret deals to keep former staff quiet made `up and down the country`
Mike Parker, from the Royal College of Surgeons, said Mr Walker is `speaking on behalf of many` after breaking gagging order

Hospital hired me to fiddle death figures: Expert claims NHS ordered cover-up

One truth that the press are not allowed to report on is the hidden agenda of statutory regulatory bodies to “protect the public” which are really protecting corporate interests at the expense of practitioners and patients

The BOA tries to threaten whistle-blower on GOsC misfeasance

Dear Julia

I am dismayed to find that you have reproduced material from September`s Osteopathy Today on your website.

I would point out that Osteopathy Today is produced only for BOA members and selected contacts and no part of it may be reproduced or published without the BOA`s express permission which on this occasion I am not prepared to grant.

Please remove the relevant material from your website with immediate effect or I will take further action.

Yours sincerely

Catherine Goodyear

Chief Operating Officer

The General Osteopathic Council turns a blind eye to sexual assault of patients by osteopaths — Osteopathy Today ISSN 1360-7448 Sept 2012 pg 23

Dear Editor

A whistle-blower’s Tale

Having read “What price regulation” about the needless prosecution of a member of the profession by the GOsC,I felt compelled to tell my story. I was not the subject of a complaint; I was a whistle-blower, but I would never be one again.

In August of 2005 I treated Mr A for low back pain. On his third visit he informed me that he had been treated by another osteopath who had asked him to strip naked, and had performed vigorous sot tissue to the buttocks and thighs, during which his hands had come in contact with Mr A’s genitals. Mr A asked if this was normal treatment and I advised him that it was not and that he should contact the GOsC. He felt unsure about this, but agreed that if I spoke to the GOsC on his behalf initially he would be happy to speak to them. I contacted the head of legal affairs who agreed to this strategy. Over the next year I encountered a steady stream of male patients with the same story of being treated entirely naked and receiving vigorous soft tissue with touching of the genitals. Several of them agreed that I could pass their details on to the GOsC.

I watched reports from the Professional Conduct Committee for the case but after more than two years none was forthcoming and I realise that something was seriously amiss. At this time I had cause to visit Osteopathy House regularly and I eventually cornered a senior member of staff who informed me that one of the witnesses, who by now paradoxically was an osteopathic student, had refused to sign a witness statement and furthermore had accused me of orchestrating the affair for reasons of professional jealousy! As a result the investigation was dead in the water.

Nothing can ever describe the agony of being called a liar in circumstances like those. The hurt lives with me to this day. On returning home I felt I had no option but inform the police who began an investigation which resulted in the osteopath being charged on multiple counts of assault.

During this process the GOsC had offered me no support. I have spoken to human resource managers in large organisations who were appalled that the GOsC had no strategy to support whistle-blowers despite the Code of Practice (Clause 81) which clearly states “If you believe a colleague’s conduct poses a threat to patients you should inform the GOsC”.

Worse was to come as, during the trial, the accused used it as a platform to traduce my name in the court, saying that I was operating a vendetta against him, all of which was reported in the local press. However, in due course he was found guilty, placed on the sex offenders register and (a year later) removed from the register.

During the five years that this dragged on for, nobody from the GOsC ever contacted me to offer support, or to thank me for bringing it to their attention. For five years I lived with the knowledge that patients were regularly being sexually assaulted and I felt totally powerless. To add insult to injury, when the GOsC published their yearly PCC report they claimed it had taken 26 months to resolve!

I have been left deeply, deeply scarred by the experience. It seems to me that the GOsC seizes on simple cases to make sacrificial lambs, but when faced with a serious case they are strangely impotent. For most of my practising life I have been actively involved with the profession and have given my time freely to many aspects of it. Now, sadly I feel quite hostile to the GOsC, and I have no wish to be involved with it in any way, shape or form.

Name and address supplied

Published in Osteopathy Today September 2012 pg 23

Why does a practitioner resign from the profession they love?

The Editor
Bedfordshire on Sunday
22 Mill Street
Bedford
Bedfordshire MK40 3HD

Wednesday 27th June 2012

Dear Sir/Madam,

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/News/Woman-convicted-of-falsely-claiming-to-be-an-osteopath-01062012.htm

The attached article [see link above] recently came to my attention and I wish to advise you that it is factually incorrect. [Bedforshire on Sunday has now amended this article on its electronic version]

I am Dr Julia Spivack of Steppingley. I can assure you absolutely that I pleaded NOT GUILTY and maintained the NOT GUILTY plea throughout the First Hearing on 2nd April at Luton Magistrates Court, the Pretrial Review on 14th May at Bedford Magistrates Court and the Trial on 1st June at Bedford Magistrates Court.

What the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) (prosecuting) won’t have told you is that I committed the Section 32(i) offence deliberately to provoke a prosecution against me after I had gathered material proof that the GOsC had knowingly and wilfully caused severe harm to a patient (who lives in Lancashire) and precipitated the premature death of her husband by aggravated harassment. The GOsC were being investigated by Bedfordshire Police led by Detective Sergeant 793 Terry Davis who organised a police video interview with the harmed patient by Lancashire Police.

I was registered with the GOsC until I resigned in November 2010 because it was too dangerous for patients – having discovered that the GOsC themselves have not only grossly neglected their statutory duty to protect the public but actually gone out of their way to cause harm. Another reason for my resignation was the GOsC’s steadfast refusal to provide me with ethical advice on request and even after my MP Nadine Dorries had written to the GOsC.

Having exhausted all normal channels of redress for the patient harmed by the GOsC through my MP Nadine Dorries, the Department of Health, the Secretary of State for Health the Rt Hon Andrew Lansely and the Prime Minister David Cameron all of whom ignored my petitions, the only recourse I had left was to resort to breaking the law in order to bring the matter into the Court system to expose the negligence and misfeasance of the GOsC. However the Magistrate was about as interested in the harmed patient as the man in the moon – I wonder if it was his daughter harmed by the GOsC would he be so nonchalant.

Moreover I had referred to myself as an osteopathic physician only on my website and in reality I made strenuous efforts to assure everyone that I am not an osteopath and do not wish to have any association with the profession or the GOsC and I was not in any way practising as an osteopath after submitting my resignation to the GOsC.

I wish to take this opportunity to thank my neighbours in Steppingley who put themselves out to help me and attend my Trial at Bedford Magistrates Court and stood by me. I would therefore appreciate if you would publish this letter.

Thankyou

Yours faithfully

Dr Julia Spivack
Steppingley

1) It came to my attention that the GOsC had caused severe harm to a patient and the premature death of her husband and I am not prepared to risk this happening to any of my own patients. I have been battling with the authorities – the Department of Health, the Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Health, the Police etc to get redress for this patient and no-one is listening. Therefore I deliberately violated Section 32(i) of the Osteopaths Act to goad the GOsC to prosecute me and after 16 months they did. I pleaded NOT GUILTY on the basis of moral duty to bring this out in the open. Bedford Magistrates Court convicted me on 1st June 2012 and were not the slightest bit concerned about the known risk posed to patients by the GOsC – see how the establishment closes ranks on whistelblowers.

2) The GOsC brought a fradulent (based wholly upon slander) and illegal prosecution against me in 2006/2007 in relation to an incident on Saturday 14th January 2006 in which I opened my surgery out of hours to give emergency First Aid to a stranger on a Good Samaritan basis (no professional fee charged) in a case of suspected misdiagnosis of meningitis by both Accident & Emergency and their GP . The GOsC denied me my rights under the Osteoapths Act to present my side of the story to their Investigating Commitee and to have legal representation and GOsC used fictitious testimony to make a case of “unfitness to practice” due to mental incompetence despite the opinion of the GOsC`s own psychiatrist Professor Stephen Hirsch who reported in wriitng to the GOsC that he was generally impressed that I am “hardworking, caring and rational” and there is no evidence of any mental disorder. However the GOsC persisted in their prosecution against me despite their written admission that they have no material evidence for their allegations against me. The GOsC acted illegally and “ultra vires” in this case.

3) The GOsC refused a Judicial Review in the High Court in 2007 over my case – so what happened to their duty to protect the public?!

4) The GOsC have refused to provide me with guidance and ethical advise on the legalities of my Duty of Care to strangers in mortal danger and in this they are in breach of their written contract to their registrants.

5) Thus are GOsC registrants are forbidden from detecting clinical “red flags” and medical emergencies eg meningitis and summoning the emergency services in a medical emergency ? How is this congruent with their primary statutory duty to protect the public ?

6) There was an Adjournment Debate in the House of Commons on 25th October 2000 in respect of the GOsC`s misuse of the Osteopaths Act 1993. The Adjournment Debate raised the matter of the GOsC accepting fake applications to the Stautory Register of Osteopaths and that “classical osteopathy” (ie the original osteopathy) was being subjugated to “modern osteopathy” (manual therapy in a biomedical paradigm). Hundreds of osteopaths with classical leanings were refused registration with no route of appeal when they fulfilled the criteria for automatic full registration as set out in the Osteopaths Act 1993.

7) Sarah Couchman (Oxford) was a top student in her cohort with leanings towards classical osteopathy. She graduated with a good degree in Osteopathy from a UK university and was subjected to an abusive and humiliating panel interview, refused registration outright by the GOsC with no reason given. The BOA hired a QC who mounted a successful legal challenge and Sarah was registered. However the GOsC subsequently removed her details from their online register and did not tell her. By the time she discovered she had also found out about the Adjournment Debate, the bogus osteopaths, fake applications to the GOsC register and resigned her registration as a conscientious objector.

8) The GOsC made life so difficult for blind osteopath Jeff Smith, who used to practice in Grange over Sands, Cumbria, that he lost heart and left the profession

9) The GOsC appear to be promoting osteopathy as a treatment for “musculoskeletal complaints” and to be imposing a biomedical model on the profession. Osteopathy was originally conceived by Dr Andrew Taylor Still for all disease. Dr Still`s definition of osteopathy is “surgery, obstetrics and general practice”. The fundamental tenets of osteopathy are diametrically opposed to those of allopathic medicine eg the body possesses its own internal pharmacy; opposed to indiscriminate use of drugs to suppress symptoms although not against drugs altogether when necessary. Dr Still`s osteopathy was founded on a spiritual and theological premise that life is matter in motion animated by spirit of the Creator of the universe. Our link with the Divine is our free source of healthcare for all God`s children. Dr Still was influenced by the spiritual culture of the Shawnee Indians who orginally came to the North American continent from Asia and brought with them elements of the Vedic culture. Thus originally osteopathy has common roots with Ayurvedic medicine. However the original osteopathy is being stamped out by the GOsC and replaced with “modern osteopathy” for “very minor orthopaedics” which is a castrated, emasculated and “sanitized” distortion and corruption of “osteopathy” that bears little resemblence to the original and has no potency against disease and poses no threat to the monopoly of the pharmaceutical industry and the medicl profession. The GOsC are deluded that they are regulating osteopathy and osteopaths – they are doing nothing of thre sort. The GOsC regulate manual therapists – period. How many GOsC registrants in surgical posts in the NHS ?, how many in obstetric posts in the NHS ?, how many in GP posts in the NHS ? A big fat 0. Where does one find GOsC registrants in NHS posts? – answer – physiotherapy departments !

10) The previously chivalrous and cooperative culture of the profession which was a cooperative working together for the benefit of the public has been replaced by crass and vulgar commercial culture. Practices are now “businesses”, patients are now units of fiscal turnover. The profession is now run by lawyers not osteopaths. It is rapacious, adversarial and brutal. The spiritual and theological underpinnings have been stripped out and what was “osteopathy” has been reduced to a manual therapy in a secular biomedical paradigm and subjugated to “scientific evidence base”. See http://bostforum.org.uk/media/Report_Blog.pdf report by Jason Cook – Osteopathic Regulation: Two decades after “the Act” pg 16-21.

11) The GOsC conducted a wholesale purge of classical osteopaths from its inception. Those who slipped through the net are witch hunted by way of malicious fictitious complaints.

12) The public are now confused over the difference between an osteopath, a chiropractor and a physiotherapist as they all claim to be experts on back pain, neck pain etc ??!! The public have now lost a major avenue of choice in healthcare and are at the mercy of the monopoly of the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession – in the name of “safety”. What options are there for those who do not wish to be “pharmed” with vaccines and drugs ?

13) Under the Osteopaths Act 1993 it is a criminal offence to describe oneself as an osteopath when not registered with the GOsC – therefore I wish it to be understood that I am in no way associated with the GOsC.

14) The Osteopaths Act 1993 confers legal protection of the title “Osteopath” and “Osteopathy” and derivatives thereof but has no jurisdiction over function. There is no definition of osteopathy in the Osteopaths Act and osteopathy cannot be defined by its therapeutic applications. The elements of osteopathic practice are not defined or protected in law.

15) I have dropped “osteopathy á la GOsC” like a hot potato after their behaviour in 2006 and discovering they damaged a patient and moved on and developed my skills in a direction different to that of GOsC registrants and have endeavoured to reconstitute the original vision of Dr Still but under a different professional title to provide the public with an avenue of choice. See page “Structural and autonomic Medicine”.

Those [former] osteopaths who cherish osteopathy and the notion of service to the Divine Intelligence are increasingly being forced to resign from the register of the GOsC – many are victims of malicious, fictitious, illegal prosecutions by the GOsC in their bid to reduce the scope of practice of osteopathy – Clifford Conway (expert in osteopathic gynaecology & obstetrics, Kendal Cumbria), Goran Stal (Forres, Scotland), John Perrott (fertility, Milton Keynes) and many others have been forced to resign their GOsC registration and practice under an alternative professional title. Some join the Assocation of Osteomyeologists. Others like myself chart their own course.

To learn what has been taken away from you read the following extract from:

Accepting the Death of Osteopathy by Dr James Jealous D.O.

– reproduced with kind permission from Dr Jealous

1 This is a recording of a lecture given at the AOA (American Osteopathic Association) convention October, 1999. The topic of the lecture is ‘Accepting the Death of Osteopathy’ and it’s a difficult topic for anyone to follow unless they’ve lived in the daily practice of traditional osteopathy. It’s actually a lecture that probably doesn’t have much meaning unless one has had an experience with true osteopathy, and I mean having felt the healing forces in the patient or having had a sense of the real depth of osteopathy as a healing science. So, it is really focused on people who have been in practice and have been practicing traditional osteopathy for a while.

2 Traditional osteopathy is a term I use that means one is in a family practice setting, treating all types and ages of patients with all types of diseases using the perceptual skills of osteopathy. It means using ones hands as a primary therapeutic tool to find the health and the therapeutic process in the patient. Traditional practice is living; it’s living the precepts of osteopathy in oneself. It is the striving to learn from nature the laws of healing. It is the augmentation of an innate healing power within the patient. It is an act of devotion to a specific body of knowledge that is clinically safe, effective, and guided by reason perched upon the mystery of the Divine.

3 My relationship of osteopathy has been the central axis of my professional and spiritual life. This lecture focuses upon accepting, accepting the death of osteopathy as an individual. It’s not about action to be taken by committees, groups, or institutions. It’s about ones self, ones relationship to osteopathy, and deepening ones personal insight and sense of direction. It is a topic I have lived and have found very healing. Accepting the death of osteopathy opens the way to a new-found inspiration that replaces an old pattern of grief. We have all lived in despair most of our professional lives, watching osteopathy be defiled, degraded, forgotten, and turned more and more into an allopathic clone. My goal in speaking is not to degrade but to state the facts that we all know are true. I’m not speaking out of anger but out of love for the true spirit of osteopathy. I’m also speaking out of a desire to see it living again in its fullness. Osteopathy has died. What remains is only an empty skeleton of a dynamic gift we were once given. The essence of osteopathy is gone, extinguished. Today we are relating to a ghost, co-dependently and neurotically fixated upon imitating allopathic medicine. Many believe this is an illusion. They think that imitating allopathic medicine is an evolution for the profession. It is not an evolution; it is cloning. It is completely irresponsible to the suffering individuals in this world to reduce their options for health care, for healing.

4 Osteopathy is an alternative method of practicing medicine. It was founded by an MD who saw the necessity for a safer, more effective, more holistic profession. Osteopathy was a gift to humanity. It was there to help. We have allowed ourselves to fail in our responsibilities to our fellow man. My argument here, again, is not against allopathic methods but for the richness of osteopathy. Osteopathy is gone. It has died. Today many will point to OMM (Osteopathic Manipulative Management) as osteopathy. However useful, OMM is not osteopathy. Osteopathic practice is for the treatment of all diseases, not just somatic dysfunction of the neuromuscular skeletal system. OMM and the AAO (American Academy of Osteopathy) are in fact the only campfires still burning upon the vigilant plains of waiting, waiting, waiting for a change that will free osteopathy to allow it to resurrect itself to serve humanity. But osteopathy has died. Our schools do not teach osteopathy as a primary education. Many, in fact, are ashamed of traditional principles. The few students who really want osteopathy and who don’t lie on their applications spend their free time trying to find osteopathy, but it’s gone. These students are ridiculed for being osteopaths by the majority of students and faculty who trivialize their interest in osteopathy. The school administrations generally lack social integrity because they do not understand that they are not giving the general public the gift of osteopathy. The schools are teaching allopathic medicine. We don’t need more allopathic doctors; there are plenty. We need the alternative of osteopathy. We owe it to humanity to be osteopaths, but the dilemma is who remembers how to do a full practice using osteopathic principles? Are there any teachers who remember the whole sense of living osteopathy?

5 If I say osteopathy has died, perhaps I should define the character of osteopathy as I have learned it and perceived it in 30 years of practicing traditional osteopathic medicine. So let me review for you my understanding of what osteopathy is so that you can get the picture of, in a sense, in colloquial terms where I am coming from.

6 First of all, osteopathy is an alternative to orthodox medicine. It’s an alternative to orthodox medicine. This truth should be obvious. It’s not. Osteopathy is about finding the health of the patient. This is a direct perceptual skill; it’s not just an idea about making a person healthy. It’s a living truth. Finding the health in the patient is the learned art of directly perceiving something other than disease in the patient, a skill that therapeutically engages laws of healing not recognized by orthodox medicine. The gift of this wisdom is all but forgotten. It was part of the life blood of osteopathy, part of a challenge to us as individuals, to be a truly unique profession.

7 Secondly, osteopathy awoke us, humanity, to the role of the autonomic nervous system in health and disease. This tremendous insight was profound. As science has matured, it has noticed the relationship of stress to disease. Today most Americans are aware of the role of stress in upsetting the balance of the health. Osteopathy, however, was way ahead of even today’s common medical knowledge because it had the skill to directly interpret, to directly interpret and influence autonomic activity using perceptual and palpatory skills. The level of awareness that can be developed in this regard is much greater than any scientific instrument. The capacity to sense, interpret, and interface with autonomic nervous system control and influence cellular trophicity with a clear awareness of specific changes; this perceptual skill is lost. It is gone from our teachings and the skill has died.

8 How many patients coming into a family practice setting in the 1990s have diseases or symptoms that are the result of sympathetic overload? Perhaps 80%, I really think a lot more; perhaps 80% of disease is directly traceable to autonomic nervous system imbalance. Think about this for a moment – just think about it. How many patients that walk into your office have diseases that are traceable to autonomic nervous system imbalance? Let’s take a look at most of the intestinal problems that we have. Let’s take a look at the immune problems we have, with eczema, asthma, migraine headaches. You take a look at all of the programs here at the AOA convention, and you could sit down and treat most of these things osteopathically. But how many of your patients, if their autonomic nervous system was balanced, if the sympathetics and parasympathetics could operate as a whole, and there wasn’t a lot of interplay with sympathetic overload; if the trophicity of the cell, its ability to recover from stress, was normalized what would happen? How many of those patients would need to be on medications or need to be frustratedby their illnesses? But where are the tools and the insights to treat this epidemic? Drugs do not cure cause. Period. We have failed in our responsibility to humanity by letting this truth die. Today we worship only the ashes – the living osteopathy is gone.

9 Thirdly, for me, osteopathy when alive taught us to have a sense of the whole patient, not by engaging all the parts but by a direct sense of the whole. The whole is the least division of life. Are these just words, medical poetry, or have we actually lost the skill of this understanding? Have we actually lost the capacity to see this living whole and its health and the beauty and the dynamic of it?

10 The fourth category of osteopathic truths that remains buried, in my opinion, is that osteopathy is a relationship between man, nature and the Divine. So osteopathy professed a relationship with nature and God that had meaning. It was not poetry, it had meaning. Osteopathy did not see nature as a child of science. It saw nature as a reflection of the great and loving wisdom of the Creator. This truth was not a religious cult; it was a fact of common sense. Man is not the creator of life nor is he as smart as he would like to have us believe. This perspective that man, nature, and God are in direct relationship creates a sense of balance in the physician’s degree of self-importance. Osteopathy, by its very nature, could mold the ego into a position of compassion, compassion being not empathy but the capacity to see the Divine in ones patients. This principle places osteopathic thinking and practice in a very unorthodox position.

11 In order to be brief, I will explore only one more principle of practice, and that is that osteopathy prevents disease. Understanding and helping the autonomic nervous system to balance plays an important role in interrupting the momentum of involutionary patterns of living. Understanding diet, exercise, perception, and the autonomic nervous system are incredibly powerful tools in preventative medicine. Osteopathy has in a sense lost its role in serving humanity. For me, realizing that osteopathy has died brings us as individuals to a point of fact where we must reconcile this loss.

12 Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, an outstanding clinical researcher and practitioner, has written extensively on the subject of death and dying, and her research reveals that in order to accept death (which is something we all must pass through, but in terms of our professional life we need to pass through it right now); in order to accept death, one passes through several stages that finally lead to a completely new relationship with living. As osteopathic physicians who have realized that osteopathy is dead, we have several choices, but more importantly we need to find freedom from the constant frustration that we face in realizing the fact that osteopathy cannot return and serve humanity unless there is a new beginning. A new beginning requires insight. It requires that we be free from our grief and accept the death of our profession. This is not a morbid thought; it is a direction. It’s a direction that will perhaps open us to new possibilities. Let’s take a brief look at Dr. Kubler-Ross’ stages of acceptance and see if that can help us as individual osteopaths to come to an understanding of how important acceptance is and what kind of direction can come out of it.

These tapes are copywrited by myself, James Jealous, and it would be appreciated if they were not copied. The reason for this is that a lot of people have put a tremendous amount into helping with these projects, and in order for us to sustain making tapes, we need to cover our expenses and that’s not going to be possible unless people actually purchase the tapes. So we would really appreciate it if these tapes are not copied. If you are a student and you cannot afford to buy tapes, then just write to me: James S. Jealous, D.O., Post Box 864, in Franconia, New Hampshire 03580, and we’ll make sure that you have study materials and that your limited finances won’t be an issue in terms of your being able to continue to study. But for the people in practice, we would really really really appreciate these tapes not being copied, and hope that you’re enjoying them, and realize how much work has gone into it, not just from myself but literally hundreds of people who have contributed to this whole process of developing a biodynamic model. So we thank you very much for your interest. If you would like more tapes, or a tape list, or need any more information, you can contact Tari Sargeant, and she’s in Farmington, Maine. Her phone number is (207) 778-9847. And if for any reason that’s not a possibility, then feel free to call me. I’m in area code (603) 823-7733. And thank you very much.

JJ-Ch13 Death of Osteopathy

Transcribed by Kristina Endo

Before becoming a practitioner of natural medicine I trained as a pharmacologist and worked in the pharmaceutical industry in research and drug regulation and as a professional medical writer. My exposure to the pharmaceutical industry in a professional capacity caused me to form the opinion that pharmaceutical medicine is not the way forward in regard to health and healthcare. I am not against pharmaceutical medicine but for the public`s right to choice in healthcare and for public access to information about health unbiased by commercial considerations of multinational companies.

I have conducted the first and only comprehensive academic study of corruption in statutory healthcare regulation

I research and write on a number of health issues

We Become Silent.
`The last days of health freedom`.
Director – Kevin P. Miller

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