“Show the human behind the practitioner”. Marie, photojournalist, explains to the magazine Neon her approach behind the portraits of emergency doctors that she captures from her lens. Exposing emotions and letting the reality of everyday life shine through, far from being rosy, and far from the anonymity of white coats, such is the objective of Mots d’urgentistes. This Instagram accountlooks like a portfolio, a gallery of characters from the hospital world, and it reads like a blog. The photographer had the idea with Marine, an emergency doctor, to free the word of health professionals by taking advantage of this free field of expression that are social networks.
On the Instagram account, the faces of some emergency doctors follow each other. Nothing to do with the neutrality of a photo booth, the emotions can be read in the facial expressions. They are accompanied by a brief message from the photographed person, a striking testimony to the reality on the ground. A reality where the shortage of health professionals (nurse, nursing assistant, doctor, ambulance driver, etc.) comes up against an overload of work, a lack of resources and beds to take care of patients. The comments of these practitioners are all burning warnings of a system on the verge of collapse. Aurore, a doctor, says: “We end up putting ourselves in danger because the care system is not designed in the interest of the patient,” she says.
Emergency services in “tension”
Beatrice, also a doctor, delivers an anecdote revealing her working conditions: “Knowingly choosing not to ask a patient if there is a problem of violence at home because if unfortunately she answers” yes “, it will be necessary to take time to take care of it, and that this time we do not have because dozens of others are waiting for “more urgent” care.
Kadiba emergency doctor, describes this generalized fed up, without departing from a humor that makes you laugh yellow: “In the emergency room, there is a T for tension. This is the current state of all emergency services in France. Here, we should take the tension of the people who work there. ” On the page Words of emergency workers Facebook we can find all the slices of life of these practitioners worried about the future of the healthcare system. “How can we take good care of more than a hundred patients per day over 24 hours? With more staff to take care of them !! But I have the impression that our managers are looking more to save money than to invest to improve things … “, Kadiba despairs.
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