2023-09-19 16:05:00
A general practitioner from Pas-de-Calais was sanctioned by his peers who accused him of having “failed in his ethical obligations”.
By VD with AFP Doctor Michaël Rochoy was banned from exercising for two weeks for consulting Emmanuel Macron’s vaccination file twice. © Delphine Goldsztejn / MAXPPP / PHOTOPQR/LE PARISIEN/MAXPPP Published on 09/19/2023 at 4:05 p.m.
A general practitioner was suspended for two weeks by the disciplinary chamber of the order of doctors of Hauts-de-France for having consulted the vaccination status of Emmanuel Macron, AFP learned Tuesday from the organization and the practitioner, confirming information from the Egora site. Michaël Rochoy, general practitioner in Outreau (Pas-de-Calais), is sanctioned for “breach of his ethical obligations”, writes the disciplinary chamber in its decision.
He had consulted information on the President of the Republic’s Covid-19 vaccination twice, in July and then in August 2021. The doctor will be suspended from November 1 to 15, it is specified in the decision. Pro-vaccination activist and pro-wearing a mask during the Covid-19 crisis, Michaël Rochoy claims to have discovered during a consultation that he could access the vaccination file of one of his patients without providing his social security number , and then tested this procedure with the name and date of birth of Emmanuel Macron.
A “non-revelation” according to the doctor
In the president’s file, he noted a difference between the vaccination date mentioned and that made public by the presidency. An error that he had reported to the Élysée, because it was “likely to discredit the president and vaccination”, he explained to AFP. “I consulted this information when I should not have, but I did not reveal it to anyone,” he assures. READ ALSO A doctor judged for having consulted Emmanuel Macron’s vaccination file
However, he made them public in an interview with the medical information site Egora, published in December 2021, after a first summons by the order. He “does not dispute it” specifies the disciplinary chamber of the order of doctors of Hauts-de-France. She emphasizes that “this data was covered by medical confidentiality”. For the doctor, the president’s vaccination “was all over the press”, it is therefore a “non-revelation of non-secret administrative information”.
For comparison, he recalls that “Didier Raoult, for all of his work, received a reprimand”. Professor Raoult was fined in December 2021 for having communicated “information which was not based on any confirmed data” by promoting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment against Covid-19. Michaël Rochoy will not appeal. “I don’t want to drag this matter out for a year and a half,” he explains.
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