Former Minister of Health Olivier Véran, a neurologist by training, will turn to aesthetic medicine which he will practice one day a week, but is “far from having left politics”, he said on Tuesday to AFP, confirming information from the daily Le Figaro. Olivier Véran, who resumed his mandate as a deputy after leaving the government, will work at the Clinique des Champs-Elysées, and has registered at the faculty of Créteil to train. His last ministerial portfolio was that of government spokesperson.
“It seemed extremely complicated to me to return to neurology at the University Hospital”
“It seemed extremely complicated to me to return to neurology at the University Hospital, on the one hand because the discipline has evolved very strongly on a therapeutic level (…), and two, I very quickly realized by discussing in particular with some patients that the label of minister that I have on my forehead disrupted the therapeutic relationship” with them, he told AFP. According to Olivier Véran, “15% of the French adult population uses aesthetic medicine treatments and this is something that should not be denigrated.”
“There is still a very significant percentage of French people who suffer”, whether due to a “scar on the face”, “accelerated aging linked to menopause” or “early baldness” , he illustrates.
A “Routard’s Guide” to RN towns
The deputy for Isère, who sits on the Renaissance group, also confides in joining two associations on a voluntary basis, “one which allows self-defense for women (Ladies System Defense) and another RoseUp which supports women who had breast cancer (…) in post-cancer rehabilitation”. But he “remains a deputy” and is far “from having left politics”, he assures. He is therefore thinking about “making a ‘Routard’s Guide’ to RN cities”, after having visited several cities where the extreme right is very strong or led by its representatives. “We must re-explain the program, the ideas, the danger represented by the extreme right,” he said.