Cher Mr. Michel Richard,
Dear Michael,
I have received your mail and thank you. I appreciate your concern and concern.
I wanted to reassure you from the outset, no risk of burnout or depressive syndrome linked to a sudden addiction thwarted by media exposure. No, no risk, Michel: for a doctor, the emptiness of the agenda is impossible. Treating, comforting, informing, training are privileges that make a life. Crying with joy or sadness at the news of a recovery or a disappearance. Experiencing the birth of a treatment that almost literally resurrects our end-of-life patients. I had the privilege in 1995 of experiencing “this miracle” with the appearance of antiretrovirals for the treatment of HIV. Explain, at length, the disease and su…
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