P-12, r. 5 - Code of ethics of podiatrists

Section 4.02.01 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

4.02.01. In addition to those referred to in sections 57 and 58 of the Professional Code (chapter C-26), the following acts are derogatory to the dignity of the profession of podiatrist:

(a)  pressing or repeated inducement to retain his own professional services;

(b)  delivering or issuing to any person a false report, false certificate or false prescription;

(c)  giving consultations in premises in which medications, prostheses or shoes are offered to the public;

(d)  using dangerous or inadequately tested methods, processes or treatment;

(e)  guaranteeing the effectiveness of a treatment;

(f)  using or administering medication whose period of usage as indicated by the manufacturer has expired;

(g)  lending his name to a person for the purpose of permitting him to recommend or to promote the sale, distribution or utilization of medications or instruments used in the practice of podiatry, or with a view to permitting that person to recommend or promote a treatment;

(h)  altering notes in a client’s record which are already entered, or replacing any part thereof with the intention of falsifying them;

(i)  being associated with or employed by, for the purposes of practising podiatry, a person who is not a member of the Order or associating with or being employed by, for the same purposes, a moral person with the exception, where applicable of an institution within the meaning of the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) or the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5);

(j)  assisting a person in the illegal practice of the profession;

(k)  resorting to legal proceedings against a client during the 45 days following receipt of a copy of an application for the conciliation of accounts;

(l)  communicating with the plaintiff without the written and prior permission of the syndic or of his assistant when informed of an inquiry into his professional conduct or competence or when a complaint is served against him;

(m)  taking legal action against a colleague before having previously requested conciliation by the syndic;

(n)  charging, offering, accepting or agreeing to accept a sum of money or advantage for the purpose of having a procedure or decision of the Order adopted or rejected;

(o)  furnishing false information to the Order;

(p)  failure to inform the Order that he has reason to believe that a podiatrist is incompetent or does not comply with the professional code of ethics or that a person practises podiatry illegally.

R.R.Q., 1981, c. P-12, r. 3, s. 4.02.01; S.Q., 1992, c. 21, s. 375.