This new sanction is symbolic, Didier Raoult having been retired from his hospital duties in August 2021. It remains no less eloquent. After a reprimand at first instance, the national disciplinary chamber of the order of doctors in fact increased the sentence on appeal, as revealed The Parisian : Didier Raoult is banned from practicing medicine for two years from February 1.
The chamber thus followed Dr Gilles Munier, representative of the Order of Physicians, who considered the sanction of reprimand “too lenient in view of the breaches identified”. Contacted by our colleagues, Didier Raoult’s lawyer, Me Fabrice Di Vizio, did not say whether or not he wished to appeal to the Court of Cassation.
No “unjustified risk”
The order of doctors criticizes Didier Raoult for having “not exercised caution” in his public positions on hydroxychloroquine as a treatment against Covid, and for having “promoted an insufficiently proven treatment”.
On the other hand, he did not cause “unjustified risk” to the patients to whom he prescribed hydroxychloroquine because he “knowingly excluded from treatment those who presented the highest risk factors”, believes the president of the national disciplinary chamber.