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Shortage of beds, lack of staff, degradation of working conditions… the public hospital is in bad shape and the emergency doctors are at their wit’s end. 62% of them suffer from burnout syndrome.
Emergencies have been Dr. Charles Jeleff’s daily life for 35 years. After a career at the public hospital, he now practices in a private clinic. His status: liberal emergency doctor. Here, in this clinic in Compiègne (Oise), there are 80 visits per day. At the Cherbourg hospital (Sleeve)where he practiced before, the doctor admits that he went there with a lump in his stomach. “Coming here, it reconciled me with my job”, he says. In Compiègne, there are no more budgetary or administrative constraints.
Seven months ago, after four years at the Laval hospital (Mayenne), the emergency physician Pierre-Maxime Rafaud hung up. If the feeling of having left the ship is difficult to accept, today he does not regret having joined a health center in Paris. He now works there as a general practitioner. On the program, a patient every quarter of an hour and above all no administrative tasks, far from his old daily life. Pierre-Maxime Rafaud does not rule out one day resuming his emergency doctor’s gown if and only if conditions improve.