A “reluctantly”with a feeling of ” guilt “or without regret but defending himself from being the one who “pulls”… It is never trivial to leave the public hospital. “I never thought I would leave him one day”, still seems to be surprised Mathieu Mattei, anesthetist-resuscitator at the University Hospital of Nancy in cardiac surgery, and in medical resuscitation. It is a path that some will consider classic, however, that he has resolved to take. Hospital practitioner since 2007, the one who also directed his department will join, from 1is January 2023, the Claude-Bernard clinic, in Metz.
Whether these doctors turn to the private sector or decide to convert to another profession, the movement is not new and remains difficult to quantify. But at a time when many hospitals are suffering from the lack of health professionals, it is being felt more cruelly.
“I can’t stand the atmosphere of the service anymore, simply explains Doctor Mattei. We are two to leave for this reason, out of seven doctors. » In conflict with his department head, with strong tensions for almost two years, he says he alerted the various hospital authorities at the beginning of the year. “Nothing happened, we let the situation rot, in immense inertia”regrets the practitioner, who will join this private establishment where he knows the doctors of his future service well, since they all come from his hospital.
“Perhaps there are things that we would bear without fatigue, he analyzes. But when we are just in time and such a relational problem is added, at some point, we say stop. » With seven to eight shifts per month, some hundred overtime hours, often three out of four weekends worked… the anesthetist-resuscitator nevertheless leaves “really reluctantly” : “I love my job, I never counted my hours but here, I’m going to leave my health there”he said.
The 46-year-old will now work part-time, with the same pay as today. “I did not see my children grow uphe said. I will enjoy my family. » He is far from leaving without knowing what he must cross out: “I was in charge of the heart transplant, I was very keen on it, but at some point we make choices. »
“I do not betray anyone”
It’s the desire to “create a new project” and of “overturn the table” which animates the university professor and hospital practitioner Yves Panis, 60 years old. The departure of the digestive surgeon from the Beaujon hospital, in the Paris region, has met with a certain echo, since the spawn, at the origin of the development of a very specialized department of colorectal surgery, leaves the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) with five other fellow surgeons and gastroenterologists for the Ambroise-Paré clinic. Either a movement from Clichy to Neuilly (Hauts-de-Seine), planned for November, in order to create a medical and surgical center for intestinal diseases there. “A novelty in the French system! »he said enthusiastically, reminding him that he only had to “waiting for retirement” in Beaujon, which will close in the coming years to join the future North Hospital.
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