In associations of doctors and group practices, any payment, acceptance or sharing of sums of money between practitioners is prohibited, except if the associated doctors all practise general medicine, or if they are all specialists in the same discipline, and subject to the specific provisions relating to professional civil partnerships and liberal practice partnerships.
The fact that a doctor is bound in his professional practice by a contract or statute to another doctor, an administration, a local authority or any other public or private body in no way detracts from his professional duties and in particular his obligations concerning professional confidentiality and the independence of his decisions. Under no circumstances may a doctor accept restrictions on his independence in his medical practice from the…
Subject to the provisions applicable to health establishments, medical records are kept under the responsibility of the doctor who drew them up.
Under no circumstances may a salaried doctor accept remuneration based on standards of productivity, hourly output or any other arrangement that would result in the limitation or relinquishment of his or her independence or impair the quality of care.
Doctors working in a private or public healthcare or prevention service may not use their position to increase their clientele.
Except in emergencies or in cases provided for by law, a doctor providing a preventive medicine service on behalf of a local authority is not entitled to provide curative care. He must refer the person he has recognised as ill to the attending physician or to any other physician designated by the latter.
A doctor practising as a control doctor may not at the same time be a prevention doctor or, except in an emergency, a doctor treating the same person. This prohibition extends to members of the patient’s family living with him or her and, if the doctor practices within a community, to members of that community.
When entrusted with his mission, the examining doctor must recuse himself if he considers that the questions put to him are unrelated to the actual medical technique, his knowledge or his abilities, or that they would expose him to contravening the provisions of the present Code of Deontology.
The examining doctor must inform the person he is going to examine of his mission and the legal framework in which it is being carried out, and confine himself to this. He must be very circumspect in what he says and refrain from making any revelations or comments. He must be completely objective in his conclusions.
Unless otherwise provided by law, the supervising doctor must not interfere with or modify the treatment. If, during an examination, the examining doctor disagrees with the treating doctor on the diagnosis or prognosis, or if it appears that an important element useful for the conduct of the treatment has been overlooked by his colleague, he must inform him personally. In the event of any difficulties in this regard, he may…
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