2023-06-26 20:27:54
The so-called alternative, soft or secondary medicines might no longer bear this name, if the requests of the College of Physicians are accepted.
The Order of Physicians is concerned regarding therapeutic drifts. In an interview with the regional daily Ouest-France, Dr. Claire Siret delivers the conclusions of a report by the organization on the “drifts” of “unconventional care practices”. He recommends reserving the term “medicine” for conventional care, excluding parallel practices.
The title of “unconventional care practices” includes, according to the government, “complementary, alternative and natural medicine”: osteopathy, chiropractic, hypnosis, mesotherapy, auriculotherapy, acupuncture, etc.
Practices having the “common point (…) that they are neither recognized, scientifically, by conventional medicine, nor taught during the initial training of health professionals”, as specified on a sheet on the site santé.gouv.fr.
The Order says it is worried regarding the many abuses of these practices which can “put patients at risk”:
“There is a form of trivialization of unconventional care practices, and it is dangerous […] they remain practices of well-being, and do not replace therapies, at the risk of putting patients in danger”, explains Claire Siret to Ouest-France.
“Falsely reassuring setting”
If the Order wishes to reserve the term “medicine” for recognized practices, it is because vagueness presents risks. “Today there is no ban on using the word medicine. The terms natural medicine, alternative medicine give a falsely reassuring framework. The term medicine must absolutely be protected from excesses”, warns the doctor.
In addition, the rapporteur specifies that the term “doctor” must also be regulated. The purpose, that a psychologist cannot in order not to register “doctor on a plate without specifying [qu’il] is not a doctor of medicine”. These two requests might be included in the public health code.
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