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“The public hospital has abandoned me”: the emergency room crisis seen by the caregivers who threw in the towel

6/9/2022, 1:42:12 PM


As professionals warn of an embolism from the emergency services this summer, resigning caregivers, or on the po

For the first time in years, Thomas Laurent, 36, arrives peaceful at his workplace.

There he receives boxes full of books, which he then stores on the shelves of a bookstore in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.

The compresses, syringes and catheters that this former emergency nurse handled until September 2021 seem very far to him.

From now on, he works only during the day, sees his overtime taken care of "by the minute", "in short, it's great", he concludes.

Even his relatives pointed out to him that he was better: “It's been years since we've heard you speak well of your work!

they recently assured him.

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