The urologist was one of the thirteen personalities selected to sit on the “light on the digital” commission launched by the Elysee. Criticized for minimizing the dangers of the Mediator antidiabetic drug, he left the instance.
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This is a bad start for the “light on digital” commission: hardly installed, this instance established by Emmanuel Macron to reflect on solutions against “hate diffusers” and online misinformation loses the one of its members. The Urology Professor Guy Vallancien announced his resignation Thursday, October 7, claiming a victim of a “ignoble denigration campaign” and “misinformation”. “I have decided to leave and told the Elysée. I could have stayed, but it would have created conflicts in the commission, it’s not healthy,” says Vallancien in a press release sent to the France-Press agency (AFP).
In a tribune published by Le Monde On September 30, the Pneumologist Irene Frachon, alert launcher of the mediator case, antidiabetic drug marketed by the Servier laboratory and accused of having caused 1,000 to 2,000 deaths Due to its effects on the heart, had recalled that Mr. Vallancien, a reputable urologist and former doctor of François Mitterrand, “was one of the spearheads of a nebula of high-ranking doctors (…) which for years And shameless, try to discredit, minimize, or even deny the gravity of the human drama caused by the mediator “.
In support of his argument, M me frach cited excerpts from M. Vallancien’s work, medicine without doctors? (Gallimard, 2015), in which the latter insured that “rare are the patients who were bruised by the complications related to the product”. The pneumologist recalled that, on the contrary, “nearly 4,000 victims, mostly” survivors “of the Mediator, saw their compensation procedure succeed after examination by a college of experts”.
scandal Body donation
Guy Vallancien is also implicated in the donation scandal at Paris-Descartes University. The Express had revealed in 2019 the unworthy bodies conservation conditions given to science in the Body Donation Center (CDC) of the prestigious Faculty of Medicine, directed from 2004 to 2014 by the teacher. Following this scandal, the CDC had been closed and an open administrative investigation. More than a hundred complaints have also been filed by relatives of the deceased, worth the university a pursuance in April. “I have no responsibility in this case,” says the doctor in his communiqué.
Victim associations accuse him of having also benefited from the resale of the bodies thanks to a private structure, the European School of Surgery (EEC), which he had rised in parallel with his activities at the University , what he denies, again. Professor Vallancien also was the subject of a sanction of the doctors’ order for writing a false medical certificate. A blame he considers “scandalous”, ensuring that he has only made his “expert work” to defend a patient with cancer.
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