Doctors who will not be adequately protected against COVID-19 on October 15 will see their license to practice suspended “until they regularize their situation,” reports the Collège des médecins du Québec. It will therefore be impossible for them to carry out teleconsultations as well as the follow-up of the results of examinations or laboratory tests, one specifies in a newsletter.
The decree requires the College of Physicians of Quebec to identify physicians and residents who are not adequately vaccinated. This is a small minority, since the vaccination rate for physicians is 97%, according to available data.
The President of the College, the Dr Mauril Gaudreault, urges latecomers to get vaccinated quickly in order to protect their patients. “Doctors, students, residents and monitors who have received a first dose of the vaccine should make sure to receive their second dose as soon as possible (respecting the minimum period of 21 days between the 2 doses)”, he wrote to its members. in the newsletter.
As for doctors who have not received any doses or who will not be adequately protected in time, Dr.r Mauril Gaudreault recalls this: “For all those who will see their right to practice suspended on October 15, it is now your ethical responsibility to ensure that your patients and their files are taken care of from that date, and this, until the suspension of your right to practice is lifted, ”he wrote.
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