Monday, he greeted his secretary by giving him an appointment for his consultation the next day. Professor Yves Pouliquen, 88, died suddenly on Tuesday, February 4, to the dismay and grief of all those who knew and respected him. It is a beautiful figure of French medicine which has just disappeared.
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Ophthalmologist of international reputation, he had succeeded Pr Guy Offret at the head of the service of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, continuing the work of his master to make it a service of international reputation. He was the witness and the actor of the prodigious evolution of medicine in half a century which he told in his book The unveiled eye, the healed eye (Odile Jacob editions, 2018).
Professor Bahram Bodaghi, head of the ophthalmology service at Pitié-Salpêtrière (Paris), one of his last interns, speaks with emotion of this man "who never raised his voice, so much his natural authority was essential".
An avant-garde
If he was a great old-fashioned boss, respected by his students,
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