We knew the decision of the instance without knowing its motivations.
It is now done: the Disciplinary Chamber of the Order of Physicians of New Aquitaine has imposed a blame on Professor Didier Raoult for having communicated "information which was not based on any confirmed data" by promoting hydroxychloroquine as treatment against Covid-19, she justified in her decision sent to AFP on Tuesday.
"Professor Raoult has, through various media and in particular his own channel within the media YouTube, provided information which was not based on any confirmed data, without showing the necessary caution whereas very quickly existed deep uncertainties about the appropriate treatments for Covid-19, ”detailed the Bordeaux-based body.
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The chamber thus considers that the infectious disease specialist from Marseille has violated article 12 of the code of ethics, which requires doctors to communicate "with caution" to the general public and on the basis of "confirmed" scientific "data".
The chamber still retains that Didier Raoult "disclosed in medical circles a new treatment process insufficiently tested" without the "necessary reservations".
No taking of "unjustified risk", according to the Chamber
Didier Raoult also "failed in his duty of good fellowship" by speaking "in an improper, discourteous, even aggressive manner" against other doctors, adds the chamber, whose blame, inflicted on Friday to the Marseille infectious disease specialist, is subject to appeal.
On the other hand, the Chamber did not accept the accusations of "charlatanism" and of taking "unjustified risk" for having prescribed this treatment to patients, despite its lack of proven effect.
"Professor Raoult did not run any unjustified risk to his patients by prescribing hydroxychloroquine at the doses usually recommended", she still believes.
“It's a decision that spares everyone's honor.
I can continue to do my job and the Council of the Order does not disavow itself ”, reacted Friday to the Parisian-Today in France, after the announcement of a reprimand by the authority.