“Homeopathy, like other practices qualified as“ alternative medicine ”, is by no means scientific. These practices are based on beliefs that promise miraculous and risk-free healing. ” For having signed a tribune in March 2018 in Le Figaro calling in particular for the reimbursement of homeopathic products, ten doctors have just been heavily sanctioned by the Disciplinary Chamber of First Instance (CDPI) of Île-de-France. They were prosecuted by unions of homeopaths for "non-brotherhood".
Nine received a reprimand, which resulted in three years of ineligibility for all office in the National Council of the Order of Physicians. The tenth, a young general practitioner, was suspended for three months. A first in this case. All will appeal.
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One of the decisions, which Le Figaro was able to consult, is based on articles 4127-31 and 4127-56 of the Public Health Code. They say doctors must "refrain
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