- Richard Gorringe
Dr. Richard Warwick Gorringe, MB, ChB, of
Hamilton, New Zealand , was found guilty of "Professional Misconduct" and "Disgraceful Conduct" in 2003, [cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/print.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3518312|title=Prayer doctor vows to carry on 'healing'|date=August 16 ,2003 |author=Elizabeth Binning|publisher=NZ Herald] by theMedical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal ofNew Zealand inWellington , which drew upon expert witnesses to consider the application ofcomplementary and alternative medicine . [cite web|url=http://www.mpdt.org.nz/decisionsorders/decisions/0289dfindings.pdf |title=Richard Gorringe - MPDT Report 2003|publisher=Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal ofNew Zealand |accessdate=2006-12-17] The council ruled as to the lack of any scientific or other objectively determined merit or efficacy for "Peak Muscle Resistance Testing" (PMRT) -- also referred to as Bi-Digital O-Ring Testing (BDORT)cite web|url=http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/gorringe.html|title=Disciplinary Actions against Dr. Richard Gorringe|author=Stephen Barrett , M.D.|publisher=Quackwatch |accessdate=2006-12-17] -- or other equivalent forms of Applied Kinesiology.Gorringe was stripped of his license to practice medicine and fined NZ$104,096 in the ruling.
Gorringe was subsequently found guilty of malpractice in the death of an earlier patient in a 2004 ruling of the
Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal inAuckland , which concluded that Gorringe's reliance onBDORT to the exclusion of conventional diagnoses led to the patient's death. [cite web|url=http://www.mpdt.org.nz/decisionsorders/decisions2003/03113cfindings.pdf|title=Richard Gorringe - MPDT Report 2004|publisher=Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal ofNew Zealand |accessdate=2006-12-17]References
External links
* [http://www.mpdt.org.nz Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand Official Site]
* [http://www.homoeopathica.org.nz/editorial_05.htm New Zealand Homeopathic Society Editorial on Complementary and Alternative Medicine reforms in Australia and New Zealand referring to their being in part in response to the case of Richard Gorringe]
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