2023-04-20 02:00:00
101-year-old doctor Christian Chenay, despite his advanced age, still sees patients. He began his medical internship during World War II. The local government honored him with an award for his long medical career.
“It’s more social work than medical work,” Chenay tells Le Parisien, pointing out that the region lacks doctors, hence his long professional activity.
Most often, his patients come for prescriptions, but the doctor, using more modern technologies, has recently also launched remote consultations. He still has 425 patients under his care, Le Parisien reports.
In 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, Cheney, who describes himself as a devout Catholic, took care of a nursing home for religious. “At first we weren’t vaccinated, we didn’t have masks, I was lucky not to get infected,” Chenay told the newspaper.
During World War II, as a trainee doctor, Chenay was forcibly mobilized by the Germans to treat a typhus epidemic. He recalls that working conditions were hard and basic tools and medicines were scarce.
Chenay received an award from the Marne Valley Department Council on Tuesday for his long practice as a physician. When asked about the secret of his longevity and good form, Chenay replied that “there are no secrets. I always ate irregularly and not very much, almost always doing two things at the same time.
From Paris Katarzyna Stańko (PAP)
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