Doctolib has decided to exclusively list professionals referenced by health authorities.
End of the controversy. This Wednesday, Doctolib announced that it was going to withdraw all well-being practitioners present on its platform. Thus, the No. 1 in making medical appointments “chooses to list on its website exclusively professionals referenced by the health authorities“can we read in a communicated.
In detail, these are “5,700 practitioners working in wellness professions” who will no longer be able to benefit from the services of Doctolib. The professionals concerned “benefit from a period of 6 months” to leave the platform.
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Controversy in August
This decision follows the controversy born in August. Doctolib had drawn the ire of health professionals for having integrated into its platform practitioners who are not state-certified doctors. Thus, the No. 1 in making medical appointments is accused of to “promote” alternative medicine.
Doctolib already had suspended the profile of 17 naturopathstrained by Irène Grosjean and Thierry Casasnovas, influential personalities on the Web, accused of being at the origin of sectarian aberrations.
After 6 weeks of consultation and 40 actors met, @Doctolib chooses to list exclusively the professionals referenced by the health authorities. Details here \ud83d\udc47.https://t.co/DfU24RjEuy
— Doctolib (@doctolib) October 26, 2022