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Eight doctors from Dijon will fly back and forth every Thursday to save the CH de Nevers. Or 5,000 euros per day of care. In war, as in war!
By Francois-Guillaume Lorrain
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Lhe country doctor was one of those French mythologies dear to Roland Barthes. He was often the first in the township to have an automobile. Today, due to the medical desert, they are the first service profession to fulfill their role in… airplanes. We had known the French doctors, paragons of humanitarian medicine, obligatory globetrotters, their field of operation somewhat exceeding the ring road. We weren’t talking about the carbon footprint yet, and before saving the planet, we were concerned about saving those who lived on it.
But now the mayor of Nevers, a landlocked prefecture devoid of practitioners, Denis Thuriot, who is also the chairman of the supervisory board of the CH of the agglomeration of Nivernaise, had no other recourse, to populate his de.. .