Subsection 4: Practice of the profession

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…

The doctor in charge of the examination is bound to secrecy towards the administration or body that calls upon his services. He may and must only provide his conclusions from an administrative point of view, without indicating the medical reasons for them. Nominative or indirectly nominative medical information contained in the files drawn up by this doctor may not be communicated to persons outside the medical service or to any…