• The presence of professor of medicine Guy Vallancien within the commission responsible for combating the hold of conspiracy theories and disinformation in the public debate has been controversial for several days.

  • In addition to some controversial positions, a controversial quote on gynecological exams is attributed to him on social networks: “Personally, I think we can sometimes use the patient's body for training.

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  • Guy Vallancien made these remarks in 2015 on the BBC, in the wake of a scandal on the intimate examinations carried out on patients under anesthesia in certain hospitals.

The presence of Guy Vallancien within the commission installed by Emmanuel Macron to fight against the hold of conspiracy theories and disinformation in the public debate does not go unnoticed.

The appointment of this professor of medicine is indeed controversial for several reasons.

Accused by the pulmonologist Irène Frachon, of having minimized the "human drama" of the Mediator affair, Guy Vallancien is also mentioned in the scandal of the "mass grave" of the University of Paris-Descartes, whose body donation center is said to have kept corpses for years in appalling conditions.

If the presence of Guy Vallancien - who also recently received a reprimand from the Order of Physicians for a medical certificate deemed "false" - was finally confirmed within the commission by its chairman, sociologist Gérald Bronner , and that the professor says to be the subject of "disinformation", a controversial quote on his medical practices is attributed to him on social networks.

So if I understand correctly, the president of the new ministry of truth is bragging about having raped people under general anesthesia and without them knowing it for "training" purposes and does not see why one should ask for consent. pic.twitter.com/ZannhpfuvX

- Donkey Skin (@ ClaireJardin1) October 5, 2021

According to this viral visual, he would have said on the BBC: “My bosses taught me to train myself to perform rectal and vaginal examinations on people under anesthesia, without any consent from the patient.

We thought at the time that patients trusted the surgeon, and that was a laudable goal.

[…] Personally, I think we can sometimes use the patient's body for training.

It's normal, that's how we learn.

Do we have to have a consent form, one more?

Why not ?

I don't think it's important, but if people need to, we will.

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Guy Vallancien made these remarks in October 2015, during a BBC program - still available to listen - devoted to the question of gynecological violence. A subject which found itself, at the time, on the front of the media scene, in the wake of the revelation of vaginal examinations performed on sleeping patients - in particular by externs from Lyon-Sud.

Guy Vallancien was invited to the BBC to illustrate the point of view of health professionals who consider this controversy excessive.

It is in this context that he made (in English, from 10'04) the remarks which are lent to him on the visual… and which were the subject of an immediate reaction from the journalist on the plateau (at 10'49): “I don't think a lot of people agree with him.

[…] Most of us in this situation would like to be warned in advance.

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Remarks denounced by the conference of deans of faculty of medicine

A few weeks later, the conference of deans of the faculty of medicine had also castigated the words of Guy Vallancien and other professionals defending the same position.

“We cannot in any way endorse these statements, which are totally contrary to the ethical principles that we defend.

Whatever the modalities of medical practice (in a consulting room, in a care establishment, in the operating room, etc.), no gesture, clinical examination, diagnostic or treatment act can be carried out without the information and consent of the patient. patient, in accordance with the law of March 4, 2002 on patients' rights, ”she said at the time, as reported in

Le Quotidien du Médecin

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