Alexis LebrunNovember 14, 2024
Since its appearance in 2018, Thomas Lilti's Original Creation has been rightly praised for its realism. But since this third season of Hippocrates pushes the cursors really hard, we wanted to check if it still depicts reality as well.
Emergency rooms that close at 8 p.m. in the summer? It's true (and not necessarily only in summer).
This is the starting point for this third season ofHippocrateswhich takes place in the middle of summer: the emergency rooms of Poincaré hospital close at 8 p.m. due to lack of staff and beds. As confirmed by Thomas Lilti at Point, “this is unfortunately what happened in many hospitals this summer”and this is not the first year that this has happened.
It is also not necessary to wait until July and August for certain emergencies to close at night, but the problem is further aggravated in summer by the fact that SOS Médecins, the Samu and the firefighters are also slowing down.
Sorting patients? It's (sadly) true.
Thomas Lilti often repeats it, when he returned to work in the emergency room of the Robert Ballanger hospital (93) during the health crisis, the first sentence he heard was that of a resuscitator who said to another doctor: “You know, we're not going to be able to save everyone, you have to get that into your head. »
The sorting of patients carried out at the peak of Covid is today an open secret, but it still exists in emergency rooms outside this context, again due to the lack of staff and beds, as we unfortunately see in this season.
The California Clandestine Hospital? It's not true, but it could soon be.
Always inspired by his experience of the health crisis, where he was asked to create makeshift partitions to separate classic emergencies from Covid patients, Thomas Lilti imagined in this season 3 a clandestine wing of the Poincaré hospital, where Chloé (Louise Bourgoin) welcomes patients refused by “official” emergencies.
Thomas Lilti confirmed to Monde that it was indeed an invention, before adding: “until we learned one day in Le Monde that in Bichat a wing was opened to accommodate patients who could not be hospitalized and that one of them died. And caregivers are going to get a slap on the wrist. We will say “ Hippocrates predicted it,” but that’s what the hospital is all about. »
Elderly people mistreated? This is (unfortunately) true.
In this season there is a character of an elderly woman abandoned by her family in the middle of summer. We think it's too big to be true, but no. Thomas Lilti confirmed in an interview that he had already experienced this situation.
As for the residents of an EHPAD who find themselves dehydrated and are therefore victims of mistreatment, we unfortunately now also know that this exists much more than we believe.
Emergency departments don't know how to treat psychiatric disorders? It's still true.
Finally, this season ofHippocrates is also marked by the presence of Victor, a young schizophrenic, who is suffering from a very violent crisis, and who is poorly received in the emergency room. Thomas Lilti wanted to integrate this narrative arc, because as he explained to Allocinated, “In France, we do not know how to deal with this suffering. »
Hippocrates seasons 1 to 3, available on CANAL+.
