If Marine Ltemporel was known thanks to the Miss France competition by becoming our beauty queen for the year 2013, she is today a general practitioner. A profession whose years of study were not easy and on which she wanted to confide by denouncing the ambient sexism which reigns in the hospital world.
It is clear that the #MeToo movement has had an impact on the freedom of speech in France. If new movements have recently emerged such as #MeTooBoy, it is #MeTooHospital which is now making headlines. After the accusations of sexual and moral harassment against emergency doctor Patrick Pelloux, the former Miss France Marine Ltemporel also decided to give her testimony, surprising revelations which had the effect of a bomb.
On April 22, in a video published on her Instagram account, Miss France 2013, who became a general practitioner, spoke about her own experience during an internship carried out during her student years. If she chose to remain in the media by dealing with medical subjects on television sets like Telematin on France 2 recently or even The Health Magazineshe is now ready to use this exposure to denounce the abuse and sexism that exists in the hospital environment.
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Marine Ltemporel: her edifying testimony
It was through her social networks that the former Miss France decided to speak for the first time, talking about her experience during “ a particularly trying internship “. She tells : ” I was one of the only women. I was very young, I had already been elected Miss France and I was treated to dozens and dozens of dirty jokes, wandering hands… » Shocking comments to which she decided to return this Monday, April 29, 2024 in a video shared by the media France Info: “The atmosphere was extremely heavy, I felt constantly uncomfortable » she begins.
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She then continues to give further details: “ People could comment on my outfit, whether I wore makeup, etc. I was asked questions about my privacy. Do you like this or that position? It was that atmosphere, really very, very unpleasant “. A context that she wants to see evolve so that young women who join this environment no longer feel perpetually stuck in an uncomfortable position or even in more ambiguous and disturbing situations.
Marine Ltemporel calls into question a complete system
If some have wondered why the young woman had not spoken sooner, she gives the reasons in this same video: “ We don’t realize, when we are at the heart of a system, that it goes too far. When we are inside, when it seems to be usual, and when we turn everything that happens into a joke, when we justify it on the witty spirit, we do not realize that it is not normal » she adds. A professional context to which is added the difficulty of certain young women to react or speak out in the face of these inappropriate acts: “ We don’t want to make waves or get noticed » she explains before continuing: “Because it can mean more hours in the operating room, more hours in internship, pressure with the possibility that our internship as a student will be invalidated. So it still has a potentially negative impact on our studies and the future.”
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For these women, their entire future is at stake, one of the reasons why Marine Ltemporel calls on the Order of Physicians to react more firmly to this scourge: “ We also have the right to use humor, obviously, but humor has its limits, in fact, when it impacts others negatively (…) the Order of Physicians, today, it must be more sharp, he must know how to make more radical decisions and remove the possibility of exercising from certain people who go too far » she concludes forcefully!
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