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HASthe day after the investigation Paris Match and the revelations of Professor Karine Lacombe in opposition to Patrick Pelloux, emergency doctor and ex-columnist of Charlie Hebdothe hashtag #MeTooHospital accumulates, on X (previously Twitter), dozens of comparable testimonies from members of the healthcare employees.
“I was an intern then an outpatient in the 1990s. I experienced my share of inappropriate gestures and attacks (breast groping, forced kisses in elevators), but what weighed on me the most was the climate permanent micro-aggressions with complete impunity,” begins @DIntubator, a practitioner, in a thread on X which can quickly attain one million views.
READ ALSO #MeToo on the hospital, accusations in opposition to Patrick Pelloux: Roselyne Bachelot speaksUsing the hashtag #MeTooHopital, the physician recounts her years within the emergency room experiencing a scarcity of privateness, inappropriate remarks, social strain and the chance of being ostracized if, as an intern, she dared to complain. But his testimony is way from being the one one: within the feedback, but additionally in quite a few different tweets, the women and men caregivers denounce and testify to years of silence enduring quite a few inappropriate, even unlawful, behaviors.
The testimonies are multiplying
On April 10, Karine Lacombe agreed to verify to our colleagues of Paris Match the identification of the “predatory doctor” she portrays in her guide Women will save the hospital, revealed in 2023 (Stock). It would due to this fact be Patrick Pelloux, to whom President François Hollande awarded the Legion of Honor for his position within the assaults which focused the editorial workplace of Charlie Hebdo. Since these revelations, many practitioners have described a sexist, even violent, local weather in French hospitals.
“I experienced sexual violence during my internship,” confides Zoé aka @Dr_Zoe_ on At the time, it introduced again traumas for me. I nearly stop due to that. » Insults, humiliations in entrance of sufferers, inappropriate and sexual remarks, Zoé recounts her traumatic internship years and the silence which surrounded these acts, though they have been carried out in public.
“In one of the departments, a doctor was a notorious aggressor. He was known for touching the private parts of female students, sometimes pinning them against walls and forcibly kissing them. We were advised never to be alone in his presence. Everyone knew,” insists the practitioner, who subsequently describes an tried sexual assault from which she narrowly managed to flee, not with out still-persistent trauma.
Rapists are sadly not monsters. They are our colleagues, our greatest buddies, our brothers.Eloise Nguyen-Van Bajou
Thanks to the hashtag #MeTooHopital, comparable tales are multiplying, coming from docs who don’t hesitate to testify on their behalf: “We really all experienced the same things, most often without saying anything. Young extern at the gynecological unit, the boss who was operating: “Corinne, pull these retractors the way you like to be pulled. Or would you rather I teach you?” » feedback Doctor Corinne Depagne following the story of one other of her colleagues, additionally a sufferer.
In flip, the previous psychiatric well being skilled and now journalist Éloïse Nguyen-Van Bajou recounts her assault by an emergency physician colleague throughout a service occasion: “Rapists are unfortunately not monsters. They are our colleagues, our best friends, our brothers. Educate your boys. #MeTooHospital. » A story that provokes a lot of reaction on the social network.
READ ALSO Gynecology: doctors want to limit the use of pelvic examinationIt must be said that in 2022 the association Donner des ELLES à la santé revealed, in a survey carried out in partnership with Ipsos-Janssen, that 80% of female doctors working in hospitals have already been victims of sexist comments or gestures. inappropriate. In 2023, their barometer established the chilling figure of 30% of practitioners who declared having suffered inappropriate gestures with a sexual connotation or touching without their consent.
Beyond the victims, several practitioners have testified to inappropriate or reprehensible behavior observed during their years of study. This is the case of radiologist Thibaut Jacques, alias @docteur_tj: “In #MeToo type memories at the hospital, I remember this head of surgery department who asked the external, on his first day of block, in front of everyone, if it was “clitoral or vaginal”. »
An extension of the hashtag #MeTooHopital?
Some notice, nevertheless, that we must always not cease solely at caregivers. The account @HeleneBire thus alerts to the truth that #MeTooHopital is “exclusively reserved for caregivers”. “The “small agents” with out whom the hospital wouldn’t perform, you possibly can proceed to undergo and stay silent… Your harassing, sexist executives and colleagues with wandering palms will be capable to proceed in peace,” his message continues.
Another account, @HardingJulie1, factors out the destiny of hospital social staff: “Obviously, hospital social staff aren’t enticing sufficient to be victims… I'm not creating an issue, it's simply that we’re at all times forgotten in hospital employees! Fed up with being invisible. » A motion parallel to that carried by sufferers who testify to gynecological violence throughout their medical examinations.
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