It is forbidden for a doctor to have his practice managed by a colleague. However, the departmental council may authorise, for a period of three months, which may be renewable once, the running by a doctor of the practice of a colleague who has died or is prevented for serious health reasons from continuing his practice.
A doctor must not set up practice in a building where a colleague in the same discipline is practising without the latter’s agreement or the authorisation of the Conseil Départemental de l’Ordre. Such authorisation may only be refused on the grounds of a risk of confusion for the public. Silence on the part of the departmental council will be deemed to constitute tacit authorisation on expiry of a period of…
Any association or partnership between doctors with a view to practising the profession must be the subject of a written contract which respects the professional independence of each of them. The same applies in the cases provided for in articles R. 4127-65, R. 4127-87 and R. 4127-88 of the present Code of Deontology, as well as in the case of employment of a doctor by a colleague under the conditions…
In practices where several practitioners work together, whatever their legal status, the practice of medicine must remain personal. Each practitioner retains his or her professional independence. The patient’s free choice of doctor must be respected. Without prejudice to the provisions specific to non-trading companies or partnerships, when several associated doctors practise in different locations, each of them must, apart from emergencies and on-call duty, only give consultations in his own…
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.
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