Toulouse doctor banned from practicing after reporting child abuse
Through Lucie Fraisse
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Doctor Eugénie Izard, child psychiatrist from Toulousehas just been sentenced to a three-month ban on the practice of medicine, one of which is suspended by the national disciplinary chamber of the order of doctors.
Accused of “interfering in family affairs”
The order accuses him of “interfering in family affairs”, after Doctor Izard wrote to the president of the departmental council of Haute-Garonne to report a case of abuse.
A conviction that the Toulouse child psychiatrist, contacted by Toulouse News does not understand: “They do not require this letter to be a report, whereas it is sent to the competent authorities (the Department is in charge of child protection, editor’s note). For them, I interfered in the affairs of this family. However, according to the social action and family code, a report cannot engage civil, criminal or disciplinary liability of its author, unless it is established that it was not established in good faith”.
A long-term file
This is not the first conviction of Doctor Eugénie Izard in this file. In 2015, the caregiver had made two reports to the public prosecutor, as well as a report to the juvenile judge, denouncing the alleged abuse of a father on one of his young patients 8 years old, followed in psychotherapy.
The father of the child had filed a complaint against Dr Eugénie Izard. After a conciliation procedure under the aegis of the departmental council of the order of doctors, the father withdrew his complaint. But the council of the order had maintained the proceedings and Doctor Izard had been sentenced to three month ban practice of medicine for the first time, in December 2020.
Eight hearings
A sanction subsequently canceled by the Board of state. The case had been referred to the National Disciplinary Chamber of the Order of Physicians.
The hearing – the eighth in this case – took place last November and led to the sanction of three months of prohibition of the practice of medicine which has just been pronounced.
Appeal to the Council of State
“I therefore make amends before the Council of State to quash the judgment for “error of law” and disproportionate sentence, sighs Dr. Izard. I’m going to try to ask to address a stay of execution, but the deadlines seem a little short to me: I risk being forced to abandon my patients again. »
It is on April 1, 2023 that Doctor Izard’s three-month ban on the practice of medicine (one of which is suspended) should normally begin.
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