Angry French doctors confront Emmanuel Macron as coronavirus overwhelms hospitals

French doctors faced off with President Emmanuel Macron at a leading Paris hospital on Friday, demanding more investment and a rethink of the country’s once-renowned public health system that found itself quickly overwhelmed by tens of thousands of virus patients.Macron acknowledged mistakes in reforming the national hospital system, which has faced years of cost cuts, leaving medical facilities in one of the world’s richest countries short of staff, masks and breathing machines needed to fight…

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