General practitioner and homeopath, Dr. François Beaudoin will be banned from exercising for 2 months from March 1, 2019 for having issued a “certificate of convenience” of “contraindication” to the vaccination of a little boy.
His wife confided in our colleagues from Parisian, explaining that the doctor had received a visit from a family “newly arrived in Angers, she came for the first time to the office and needed a certificate for the crèche”. The 2-year-old child was prone to “recurrent ear infections” and “eczema flare-ups” the mother said.
Dr. Beaudoin would then have provided a “certificate of convenience” to the parents, allowing them not to vaccinate their child. Problem: 9 months later, the younger patient’s little sister (born prematurely) contracted whooping cough through her brother. This disease is one of the eleven pathologies for which vaccines have been mandatory since January 2018. The girl is, today, fortunately out of danger.
A certificate of convenience to avoid vaccination
After discovering the famous certificate in the little boy’s health record, a doctor from the University Hospital of Angers (Maine-et-Loire) reported to the council of the order his “risky practice”. Dr. Beaudoin admitted during the procedure to have been “pushed” by the parents, while specifying that he carried out “in general few certificates of this type”.
“The problem is that there is no debate possible today in France on vaccination… We are dealing with psychorigides” laments the doctor’s wife. The disciplinary chamber, for its part, considered that “Doctor Beaudouin […] puts the child and those around him at unjustified risk. He also failed in his ethical obligation of health vigilance. […] His faulty behavior results in part from a lack of maintenance and improvement of his knowledge. “
His ban from practice is accompanied by another four months, this time suspended. The parents of the young boy, for their part, risk up to six months in prison and a € 3,750 fine, according to the Public Health Code.
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