Agnès Buzyn denounces “peaks of incivility” following the intrusion of demonstrators at the Salpêtrière on Wednesday, new patients overwhelm the “horror surgeon” of Grenoble and the United States considers that glyphosate is not carcinogenic . Here is the main news.
Intrusion of demonstrators at the Salpêtrière: Agnès Buzyn denounces “summits of incivility”
On Wednesday, at the end of the afternoon, dozens of individuals broke into the Pitié Salpétrière hospital in Paris, on the sidelines of the May Day demonstrations. Some even tried to force the doors of the intensive care unit, fortunately kept closed by nurses. “I immediately went there, and when I arrived, the gate was forced open, the chain had given way, and dozens of people were entering the hospital grounds”, told France Inter, the director of the Marie-Anne Ruder hospital. Among them, “yellow vests” and thugs with masked faces, she says. Then, dozens of people “rushed up a staircase, passing a walkway to the surgical resuscitation service”, which receives “particularly vulnerable patients”, declared on BFMTV the director general of Public Assistance – Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP), Martin Hirsch. The forces of order finally arrived 10 minutes later to dislodge the intruders, but the images of these few moments show edifying scenes… To read more, click here.
“Horror surgeon” of Grenoble: 33 former patients meet
Thirty-three alleged victims of Dr. V., now nicknamed the “surgeon of horror”, are to meet this Thursday in Grenoble, reports a correspondent from the Parisian. This meeting, initiated by Maître Édouard Bourgin, a lawyer specializing in medical errors, will allow these former patients to “collectively expose the grievances they may have vis-à-vis this doctor”. In total, the lawyer claims to have received around sixty calls from people claiming to be victims of Dr. V. “It’s unheard of,” he wonders to the daily. And for good reason: during the media coverage of the case, they were “only” seven. But the “horror surgeon” seems to have done more damage than it seems and thehe list of wrongs with which he is accused is long: non-compliance with operating techniques, harmful lack of quality in the operating follow-up, medical errors leading to amputations or disabilities, forgetting compresses leading to superinfection, etc. We tell you more in our article.
For the United States Environmental Protection Agency, glyphosate is not carcinogenic
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), glyphosate is not carcinogenic to humans. “There is no evidence that glyphosate causes cancer,” said Alexander Dunn, an agency official in charge of chemical safety and pollution prevention. “The use of glyphosate does not pose a risk to public health,” says the agency, which claims that even “children are safe to play on a treated residential lawn.” Several recent decisions of the American justice however considered the opposite. A plaintiff who claimed that Roundup, the glyphosate-based herbicide from Monsanto (a subsidiary of Bayer), was the cause of his cancer, for example, received 80 million dollars in damages. More information in our article.
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