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I am French, nothing in France today is comparable to the France of De Gaulle or d'Estaing. You still can get good treatment in private clinics or in specializ
by JPLeRouzic 3y ago
I am French, nothing in France today is comparable to the France of De Gaulle or d'Estaing.
You still can get good treatment in private clinics or in specialized centers such as Institut Gustave Roussy, but not in the average public hospitals which are constantly pushed to lower their costs, including by the “socialists”.
Overall, I don't think the situation is any better in France than in the UK or the US.
It is perhaps even worse than in the UK, for example in my small town of Saint-Malo, an elderly person lay on a stretcher in the emergency room for many hours and died there without seeing a doctor.
On average in France, 20 to 30 people die per month in the emergency room without having received treatment.
- nobodyandproud 3y agoThanks for the local perspective. Would you say https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64216269 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64216269 is an accurate summary of the problem faced in France? No matter how bureaucrats or corporate/administrative bean counters want to massage the numbers, there’s clearly a patient to caregiver ratio ceiling. Our own structures in management understand and demand this, yet these “leaders” revert to factory approaches for anyone outside of their hierarchy. Collosally stupid.
- JPLeRouzic 3y agoAs the BBC article says, "The causes of France's healthcare crisis are complex, but the long-term pressure of an aging population alongside a shortage of medical staff" It's true there were astonishing demographic changes, we went from a pyramid /\ to a column | | in 50 years. There are nearly as retirees than employees. This situation is not sustainable. And people are more and more upset. I guess there is no quick fix.