Medical Care in France

Postgraduate medical education in France.

IT is very difficult to present a picture of postgraduate medical education in France, since this is the result of activities in so many hospital and university centres, varying moreover from place to place. That in Paris is the most ambitious and will be described here. One other preliminary observation must be made: neither town nor country practitioners have much time to give to postgraduate...

Education & Research in Medical Optronics in France

First we present here the main post-graduate courses proposed in France both for physicians and engineers in medical optronics. After we explain which medical domains are concerned by this teaching, essentially computer assisted surgery, telemedicine and functional exploration. Then we show the main research axes in these fields, in which new jobs have to be invented and new educational approac...

Policy for medical technology in France.

Ethics and law in the field of medical care for the elderly in France.

The authors discuss law and ethics when medical decisions are to be taken by patients who are unable in any valid sense to express their own wishes. The main problem in legal terms is to protect an individual's free will as far as possible and ensure that his or her wishes, if known, are respected. If a patient's independent wishes cannot be known, then we must at least ensure that nothing is i...

Rationing Health Care in Europe – France