Vincent Lambert Illustration.. (AFP / with the family’s consent.)
The aim of this video, shot by the support committee continued life of Vincent Lambert, is to prove that the patient is “not the end of life.” But doctors denounce manipulation.
On BFM TV, Devalois Bernard, head of the palliative care unit of Pontoise, said he was “absolutely shocked” by the distribution of this video. This practitioner, who is “unreasonable” retention patient’s life denounced a “political-religious manipulation ‘and describes the video as” obscene. ” For him, these images “show nothing other than the same patient on which leaned there several months.” Very crudely, he comments: “We would read him the directory, we would have the same images.”
VIDEO. Vincent Lambert filmed last June 5
Professor Eric Kariger, the former head of palliative care service that followed Vincent Lambert for many years These images are also compatible with a vegetative state. “These patients are indeed disturbing for ordinary mortals like us. One has the feeling that they react to their environment, since all the sensory information coming to their brains. If you make a noise, they can react, they will have a look that seems to be caught, “explains Professor for Europe 1. But this does not detract according to him the irreversible nature of his condition:” I remember that the best experts gave a look at this. Unfortunately, the diagnosis and prognosis were confirmed it is severe and irreversible vegetative state. “
For him, this video is therefore akin to the” manipulation “. “I have tears in my eyes when talking to you. It’s painful, it’s dramatic. It is disrespectful to the patient, for his wife and daughter, who can not mourn, through this persecution that comes from their own family. It is dramatic, “he said, still on Europe 1.
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