2024-03-20 08:09:39
Olivier Véran, June 28, 2023. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP
He will put on the white coat again, but not the expected one. Gone are the hospitals and neurology, his initial specialty: it is aesthetic medicine that the former minister of health and ex-government spokesperson, dismissed during the January reshuffle, intends to embrace. And this, one day a week, in the Champs-Elysées clinic, in Paris, in addition to his mandate as deputy for Isère (Renaissance).
L’information, entrusted to Figaro March 18, may well be a private choice, but it has established itself in the public debate, in the medical ranks and beyond. For what it represents for caregivers, at a time when the healthcare system is failing on all sides and medical demographics are a crucial issue.
“The symbol is terriblereacts Olivier Milleron, from the Inter-hospital Collective. Going to do comfort medicine for rich people when the hospital is in crisis and lacking in staff, particularly in neurology, it’s still sad. Not to mention the deplorable signal of leaving the public sector for the lucrative private sector. » “Scandalous!” »reacted, onone of the spokespersons for the CGT-Santé, Christophe Prudhomme. “A former minister can no longer be completely free in his choiceswrote, on this same social network, the doctor and socialist senator from Paris Bernard Jomier. Moving from neurology to aesthetic medicine makes sense, that of a financial choice. What a disastrous message. »
“Minister’s etiquette”
On the side of the order of doctors, while refusing to take a position on a choice of personal retraining, we question the ” consistency “ and the“exemplarity” of such an option, from the one whose mission, in 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis and after, was to defend the hospital and access to healthcare for the French. Before getting involved in politics, Olivier Véran was head of neurology unit at the Grenoble university hospital center.
“When we know the health crisis that we are experiencing, with patients who take months to obtain appointments, that these things are the consequences of the policies that Mr. Véran has pursued, we still have the courage to stay in your profession”, shouted, on RMCJérôme Marty, president of the French Union for Free Medicine, a union of liberal doctors.
Read also | Hospital crisis: the university hospital deficit has tripled in one year
Add to your selections
Sensing the criticism, the person concerned explained it straight away, citing the difficulty in reconnecting with neurology. “because the discipline has evolved very strongly on a therapeutic level”he told AFP, and his fear that the“minister etiquette” it disturbs it “therapeutic relationship” with his future patients. And to defend his new field of practice: “15% of the French adult population uses aesthetic medicine treatments, and this is something that should not be denigrated”citing these ” French (…) who suffer »whether due to a “scar on the face”of a “accelerated aging linked to menopause” or a “early baldness”.
You have 37.11% of this article left to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
#Olivier #Vérans #reconversion #neurologist #aesthetic #doctor #symbol #terrible