The decision of the APHP is based on an audit report carried out within the cardiology department where this practitioner works. He is accused of having maintained a “climate of permanent suspicion” and of having systematically denigrated another doctor.
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It is a very rare procedure. The Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) announces, Thursday, June 30, that it is suspending one of its cardiac surgeons. The practitioner practiced at the Henri-Mondor hospital in Créteil (Val-de-Marne). It is not his medical qualities that are called into question, but his behavior.
This disciplinary sanction comes in a very tense climate. A year and a half ago, the heart transplant activity of the Henri-Mondor hospital was transferred to another hospital in the group, that of Pitié Salpêtrière, in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. One of the reasons given is that the Val-de-Marne hospital performed very few: only one transplant performed in 2020. The elected officials and residents of Créteil therefore feared the closure of all the activity of heart surgery.
A new audit confirms the progress made in the quality of cardiac surgery care at the Henri-Mondor AP-HP hospital and leads to taking a precautionary measure vis-à-vis a practitioner: https://t.co/ YF47bZDZWy pic.twitter.com/uUh3JANzFo
— AP-HP (@APHP) June 30, 2022
In recent days, a new audit has taken stock of the situation. The service has recovered, the report says, but it remains “an atmosphere disturbed by the climate of permanent suspicion” maintained by one of the heart surgeons accused of systematically denigrating his department head. This undermines ethics, deontology and fellowship, the report says. The document concludes that this atmosphere generates a climate potentially harmful to the safety of care. Consequently, the management prefers to suspend this surgeon and has reported his case to the order of doctors.