He hadn't been talked about for a while.
Didier Raoult, former director of the University Hospital Institute (IHU) known for his divisive positions during the health crisis linked to Covid-19, published his autobiography on Thursday April 6 with Michel Lafon editions.
And it also risks being talked about.
Named simply “Didier Raoult.
Autobiography» with his face in the background, this book returns with great praise to the career of Didier Raoult, according to elements reported by
La Provence
.
The book, co-written with journalist Hervé Vaudoit, editorial director of local media MProvence, is over 300 pages long.
"
So I had to wait until I was a medical student and touched ethology to understand that this interest that I aroused in spite of myself was undoubtedly linked to the fact that I was an alpha male",
he
notes
. it very fast.
"
When I entered professional life, I was already aware of the extraordinary potential that was mine, even if I had waited for the preparation of the boarding school competition to begin to explore its limits
"
,
he adds, still according to
La Provence
.
A fake suicide attempt
In the first pages of his book, Didier Raoult looks back on his childhood in Dakar (Senegal) where his father was a military doctor.
"
I found no interest in the course
," he wrote when discussing the repetition of his fifth, according to
20 Minutes
.
The one who recognizes today that his “
ego is indeed oversized
”
,
also returns to his
“false suicide attempt”
aimed at alerting his parents.
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According to
20 Minutes
, Didier Raoult also mentions an "
IQ of 180
"
.
"
In the field of infectious diseases in Marseille, all the practicing teachers have been scientifically trained at my place and have validated their science thesis there in microbiology or pharmacy, or even in both fields for some",
he
believes
. 'after the extracts unveiled by
La Provence
.
On the management of Covid-19, a period that made it both famous and divisive, Didier Raoult believes "
that we witnessed a historic break there, because we had never seen a disease for which the authorities ordered us not to do nothing except hope that the patients would recover spontaneously – which luckily they did most of the time
.
”
For him, the arrival of the virus was marked by a “
wind of madness which blew through the ranks of our decision-makers
”
.
On the subject of hydroxychloroquine – a drug whose effectiveness against Covid-19 he hailed – Didier Raoult delivers that he was “
well and truly right
”
.
This treatment has never achieved consensus in the scientific sphere.
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Didier Raoult directed the Marseille IHU until the end of August 2022. His management of the establishment has been singled out by the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs and the General Inspectorate for Higher Education and Research, who notably denounced his “
authoritarianism
”
.
In his book, Didier Raoult also denounces "inspections
sent to the IHU
" aimed at "
reducing him to silence
"
.
Raoult in the soul.