Thirty years he has been walking the corridors of the Rambouillet hospital center (Yvelines).
This experienced emergency doctor has just completed a 24-hour shift “without sleeping for even two minutes”.
He agreed to testify, anonymously, following an article in Le Parisien published on January 28.
The report, “In the hell of the emergency corridor”, focuses on the situation at the Versailles hospital, in which a caregiver discovered, collapsed, a dead patient “all alone, in his corner”, behind a curtain.
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35 km away, the Rambouillet hospital records an average of 30,000 visits per year to adult emergencies, compared to 90,000 at the Mignot hospital in Versailles.
But he is not spared either from this “bewildering and insoluble equation”: properly treating more patients with fewer beds.
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