Gérald Kierzek stands out among his colleagues who follow one another on the TV sets in times of health crisis. The emergency doctor wanted to remain a man of the field even if he is also a consultant on television. A position he got thanks to Thomas Sotto, famous animator who became his friend.
This week, Gérard Kierzek agreed to confide in the columns of Gala. The emergency doctor connects the TV shows, like many of his colleagues. But unlike most of them, the man opts for a speech much less alarmist on the current health situation. Whoever denounces a “world hysteria” intends to stay connected to the medical world by keeping one foot on the ground. If he became a consultant for LCI and TF1, Gérald Kierzek kept his guards at the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in Paris, and this two evenings a week. As for its media presence, he owes it in particular to a friend, famous animator.
Indeed, if Gérald Kierzek is now part of the media landscape, Thomas Sotto is not for nothing. This friend is also convinced that the emergency doctor will never leave the hospital. “Gerald will never give up his doctor’s coat to TV sunlights, let the journalist know Gala. It is his vocation.“It was in 2014 that the two friends met. Thomas Sotto was then presenter of The Morning. He spotted the potential of his friend Gerald Kierzek after an intervention “bluffing“.
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“TV sunlights”
He was the one who decided to hire her. A big risk-taking for the scientist who fully assumes the consequences. “We were facing aberrant restructuring of our emergencies, he confides. I opened my mouth. I had been warned: ‘Shut up, this will turn out badly’, I am not silent ‘, and it shot me a university hospital career. “He was then dismissed from his post as head of the Hôtel-Dieu department.
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