BORDEAUX, Nov 5 — A prominent French infectious disease doctor today faced a disciplinary hearing for his controversial recommendations on Covid-19 that won him global fame at the height of the pandemic. Didier Raoult championed the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment...
BORDEAUX, Nov 5 — A prominent French infectious disease doctor today faced a disciplinary hearing for his controversial recommendations on Covid-19 that won him global fame at the height of the pandemic.
But while seen as a folk hero by some in the southern French city of Marseille, which prides itself on its independence from Parisian orthodoxy, he was also accused by peers of spreading false information about the benefits of the drug.Raoult, 69, was present as the hearing presided over by the order of doctors in the south-western Nouvelle-Aquitaine region got underway at a courthouse in the city of Bordeaux.
“Raoult, our beacon in the night”, “Don’t touch our Raoult” were among the slogans banners testifying to the popularity of a doctor who prides himself on confronting establishment orthodoxy. The disciplinary chamber, chaired by a magistrate, can decide on sanctions against the doctor ranging from a simple warning to a temporary suspension. It must deliver its ruling between 15 days and eight weeks after the hearing.
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