2024-04-12 17:53:42
Emergency doctor Patrick Pelloux, in Paris, June 7, 2022. STR / AFP
He is a media figure in the medical world who has brought the issue of sexual and gender-based violence in hospitals to the forefront. Infectious disease specialist Karine Lacombe, known to the general public since the Covid-19 crisis, accused, in an article in Paris Match dated April 10 entitled “Metoo at the hospital, the masks fall”, emergency physician Patrick Pelloux of moral and sexual harassment. The professor had mentioned several times before, without ever naming him, a senior doctor with the behavior of “sexual predator”worked alongside Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris in the early 2000s.
“I am not denouncing a particular person, I am reporting facts which illustrate the systemic side of sexual harassment in hospitals”, explained Karine Lacombe to Franceinfo, Friday April 12. Patrick Pelloux, head of the Association of Emergency Doctors of France, denied these accusations, assuring, in Paris Matchdo not have “never attacked anyone”but grateful to have been “said” in the past. Requested by The world, both did not follow up.
“Less and less omerta”
In a tweet marked with #metoo, posted on Friday, the Minister for Health, Frédéric Valletoux, made a point of declaring that “sexism and sexual violence have no place in hospitals”indicating that he intended to bring together associations, employers and professionals to work on a “global and firm response”. The meeting will take place ” at the end of the month “people around him say.
In the ranks of practitioners and doctors, if there is no question of denying the sexist and sexual violence that affects the hospital, we refuse to comment on these accusations. “We are not judges, there is no question of participating in a form of media tribunal, that is the role of justice”reacts Anne Geffroy-Wernet, president of the expanded National Union of Hospital Anesthetists-Resuscitators, who calls for “be careful not to judge with our today’s eyes the gestures and remarks of another era “, twenty or thirty years ago, while ” the rifle spirit was everywhere, and [que] gestures and remarks, which are no longer possible, did not necessarily lead to confusion “. In his specialty, a platform has just been set up, Clash Anesthesia Resuscitation, so that interns can report such violence.
In hospitals – as in other sectors – systems and procedures exist to support victims, describes Rémi Salomon, head of the Conference of Presidents of Medical Commissions of University Hospital Centers: “We still need to improve things, of course, explains the Parisian professor. It is never easy, on a department level, to speak up. The question of hierarchy arises, we must continue to educate and publicize the authorities to be seized. »
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