While some doctors are prohibited in a canton, they can legally exercise in another. The Swiss register of medical professions, Medreg, informs that a psychiatrist has lost the right to practice in the Jura since November 2023. But the latter continues to practice in Geneva. Another general practitioner in French -speaking Switzerland, forbidden to practice in the canton of Vaud, continues to practice in the canton of Friborg. This French national was sentenced in his country to prison for massive tax fraud, relays TDG.
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In the state of Vaud, 39 surveys were opened in 2024 by the Health Council following denunciations, the same source said. In this lot, ten resulted in a warning and four of a ban on practicing, two of which are partially. At the end of March 2025, more than 80 surveys were in progress. In his research, the Swiss media discovered that at least 21 prohibitions of practicing were pronounced by the French-speaking cantons between 2020 and 2024. In detail, 17 people (16 men and a woman), including a dentist who lost his license in two cantons, and a surgeon in three cantons (Vaud, Geneva and Friborg), are concerned.
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-In Geneva, a dozen health professionals were withdrawn their authorization to practice between 2023 and 2025, according to the cantonal authorities. “The reasons for withdrawals and prohibitions to practice are data to which the authorities only have access,” explains Cédric Alber, director of communication at the Geneva Cantonal Office. This situation reveals “a flaw in the doctors’ control system,” said Baptiste Hurni, deputy to the Council of States (PS/NE) and vice-president of the Swiss patient organization.
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A real communication problem between competent cantonal authorities arises. Healthcare professionals, which are struck off from one canton, use this flaw to continue to practice in another canton in Switzerland or abroad. This is the case of a radiated plastic surgeon of the canton of Vaud in 2022 which would now exercise in Morocco, according to his Instagram profile.
