Luc Perino

Luc Perino (born in 1947 in Toulon, France), is a French physician, essayist, and a novelist. He is known for his promotion of general and clinical medicine and of Darwinian medicine.Perino first practised in rural areas of France. He then went to Central Africa where he practised tropical medicine . He later lived in South China for two years. In 1990, Perino resumed his practice in France and then started to teach clinical medicine and Human and Social Sciences at the University of Lyon, highlighting his classes with his broad experience.

Perino plays the medical doctor in the movie The Consultation shot in 2007 by Hélène de Crecy, a one-hour and half documentary taking place behind closed doors in the office of a general practitioner.