Allegations against Patrick Pellow raise issue of sexist and sexual abuse in hospitals

She is a media figure in the medical world who has brought to the fore the issue of sexual and gender-based violence in hospitals. Infectious disease specialist Carine Lacombe, who has been widely known since the Covid-19 crisis, accused, in an article Paris match Under the headline “#Meto at the hospital, the masks are falling,” dated April 10, emergency room physician Patrick Pellow spoke of sexual and moral harassment. The professor had mentioned the senior doctor several times before, which he had never named “Sexual Predator”In the early 2000s, he worked with the Saint-Antoine Hospital in Paris.

“I’m not condemning a specific person, I’m reporting facts that show the systemic side of sexual harassment in hospitals”Carine Lacombe explained to Franceinfo on Friday, April 12. Patrick Pelou, head of the French Association of Emergency Physicians, denied the allegations and assured that Paris matchI do not have “nobody attacked”But I was grateful “announced” in the past requested by the world Both did not follow.

“Less and Less Omerta”

In a #metoo tweet posted on Friday, Health Minister Frédéric Valletou noted that “Sexism and sexual violence have no place in hospitals”indicating that it intended to bring together associations, employers and professionals to work for a “A global and robust response”. The meeting will be held “at the end of the month”– say those around him.

In the ranks of practitioners and doctors, unless there is a denial of sexist and sexual abuse affecting the hospital, we refuse to comment on these allegations. “We are not judges, it is not about participating in the form of a media tribunal, this is the role of justice”Reacts to Ann Geffroy-Vernet, president of the National Association of Hospital Anesthesiologists-Reanimatologists, who urges “Be careful not to judge with our present eyes the gestures and remarks of another era”Twenty or thirty years ago, while “The gun spirit was everywhere and [que] Gestures and notes, which are no longer possible, did not necessarily cause confusion.. His specialty recently created a platform, Clash Anesthesia Resuscitation, for trainees to report such abuse.

Hospitals—as in other sectors—have systems and procedures in place to support victims, explains Remi Salomon, head of the Conference of Presidents of Medical Commissions of University Hospital Centers: “Of course, we still have to improve things, The Parisian professor explains. It is never easy to talk at the departmental level. The question of hierarchy arises, we must continue to educate and publicize the usurped government. »