Emergency doctor at the Orleans regional hospital, Matthieu Lacroix took over from the day team, taking up duty at 6:30 p.m.
And his care begins with a “miracle”, in his own words: “we have a bed for a new patient;
and in addition, a bed of the right specialty!
We are so not used to it that I am almost moved by it”.
But it remains a relative "miracle", because it is a bed parked in a hallway.
Regularly saturated services
For the doctor, emergencies depend too much on other services: "When they have no more room, either new arrivals are hospitalized in services that are unsuitable for their problem, or - and this is the most frequent solution - they go at night in the emergency room and we try to stabilize them until they can join a specialized service the next day, the day after… and sometimes even three, four, five days later”.
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Faced with these recurring difficulties, many professionals leave the hospital.
“We learned today of the resignation of a colleague, deplores Matthieu Lacroix.
And we have other colleagues who will most likely leave to open a general medicine care center, work in other hospital departments, in private structures or only work on a temporary basis”.
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