After the internal investigation, the judicial aspect. Professor Emile Daraï, head of the obstetric gynecology department at Tenon hospital in Paris, and a specialist in endometriosis, is accused by several patients of physical, psychological and verbal violence during consultations. An internal investigation led by the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) and the Sorbonne University Faculty of Medicine was launched on September 20.
Eight days later, an investigation for “Rape by person having authority over a minor over 15 years” was opened, announced the Paris prosecutor’s office, Thursday, September 30, after a complaint filed by a former young patient.
For a week, and the magazine’s first revelations Flush and of Franceinfo, testimonies are flowing on social networks, listed in particular by Sonia Bisch, from the collective “Stop obstetric and gynecological violence” and Marie-Rose Galès, herself suffering from endometriosis and author of books on the subject.
The omerta of gynecological violence committed at the Tenon Hospital @APHP in Paris continues to break down. Long live the new ge … https://t.co/bTzHmJkDks
– StopVOGfr (@Stop aux Violences Obstétricales & Gynécologiques)
Several of these former patients agreed to tell the World their experience with Professor Daraï, detailing exams “Brutal”, including rectal examinations “Violent” and ” by surprise “.
The “spawning” of endometriosis
A 45-year-old woman, still panicked at the idea of giving even her real first name, explains that she was operated on in 2007 by Professor Daraï. She remembers her first consultation with the “Laying” of endometriosis – which a first gynecologist had recommended to him, because he himself “Could not do anything” for her.
First, this vaginal examination, then another, rectal, “Very violent”, then this discussion with Emile Daraï about a probable operation: “I told him that I wanted to have children, he replied that he did not know what he was going to do, that he would perhaps remove the uterus from me, that what would happen would happen. it would happen … “ She then returns for a second meeting with her companion and requests a postponement of the operation, so that they first try to have a child. “He was so angry, he said ‘If you postpone, don’t come back”. “ He finally leaves her a day of reflection, she continues: “I was in so much pain, so I accepted. And then he is “the” specialist; you tell yourself that he’s the only one who maybe can do something for you. Save you … “
The famous day of the operation arrives. “He is there, surrounded by all his students, and he asks me to draw lots for a small piece of paper in a box to find out how he was going to operate on me, between the laparoscopy and the laparotomy. I had the laparotomy. “ The operation is a “Success”, her uterus and one of her ovaries are saved. So she does not file a complaint or report. “I decided to forget. “
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