#MeToo at the hospital, accusations against Patrick Pelloux… Michel Cymes speaks

“I know very well Patrick Pellouxhe’s a friend”. Guest of the show Le Figaro At Night this Wednesday, Michel Cymes could not escape THE question that has agitated the hospital world since the accusations of infectious disease specialist Karine Lacombe towards the emergency media. “I would absolutely not comment on what was said, on what he did or did not do, because I never spoke about that with him. explained the French’s favorite doctor before also specifying “I know Karine Lacombe very well and she is someone I also like”.

If he touches on the revelations made by the infectious disease specialist, Michel Cymes nevertheless explains that he has already witnessed“unacceptable attitudes in services”. “I saw department heads who were completely temperamental, who still thought they were in the 19th century. When you didn’t give him the right instrument in the OR, he would throw it in your face.”, he says. However, the PAF doctor assures that he has never witnessed inappropriate behavior on “in terms of sexuality”.

In my entire career, I have never seen inappropriate behavior from a head of department, a head of clinic or an intern, towards externals or young women or young doctors.

Michel Cymes

“If today there are guys who, because they are doctors, allow themselves to do this, we must denounce them. The #Metoo so much the better!” Michel Cymes welcomed a phenomenon that is taking hold in the hospital environment, while reminding that, even if it is becoming more feminine, it remains very masculine. “When I was a young intern at the hospital, the doctors were men and all the nurses were women. There was no diversity.” “It creates relationships that are a little special,” he explains.

“I asked myself the question”

The doctor does not hide the fact that he is himself “ask the question”. “Like all young men, I flirted (…) I With what comes out everywhere, I said to myself ‘take a little flashback on your life, ask yourself if there wasn’t a day when you were a little borderline?‘”, confessed Michel Cymes. And to conclude: “I have never made an inappropriate gesture towards a woman”. Before finally dreading, with a smile on his face: “After what I’m about to say, someone will wake up tomorrow and call the AFP…”