Six months of prohibition to practice including three suspended. This is the decision rendered by the disciplinary chamber of the Order of Physicians of Basse-Normandie against a doctor from Cherbourg. From October 9, Jean-François Pion, general practitioner at SOS Médecins, will therefore be deprived of the exercise of his functions for 3 months because of his “violent and discriminatory words against the disabled and homosexuals”. The practitioner is accused of having used a discriminatory speech while on duty.
Back to the facts. In January, the practitioner comes to the specialized reception center of La Glacerie (Manche), which welcomes dependent disabled adults. In front of a nurse, the health professional would have used terms suggesting that he supported the extermination of severely disabled people by speaking of “neuneus”, “individuals who are of no use in society”. The doctor also reportedly spoke of “final solution” and “sterilization”.
Words “contrary to respect for human life”
The doctor’s lawyer explained that his client had spoken in an extra-professional setting. An argument swept away by the regional council of the Order of Physicians who considered that these “contentious remarks were made, contrary to what [le médecin] supports, on the occasion of the service, “according to Liberation which relates the affair.
The disciplinary chamber ruled in its deliberation, taken up by the daily, that the statements of Jean-François Pion are “contrary to respect for human life, the person and his dignity as well as the principle of morality”.
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