Consultations and Tests

Images of healthcare appointments with specialists discussing patients' conditions, illustrating communication and patient support.

Reportage in the Resources and Research Memory Centre (CMRR), specializing in Alzheimers disease in the Claude Pompidou Institute, Nice, France. Test to detect Alzheimers disease. The MMS (Mini-Mental State) test. The questionnaire enables the overall working cognitive functions such as memory, calculation, learning, spatio-temporal steering to be gauged, and all in the space of fifteen minutes.

Reportage at the Jérôme Lejeune Institute in Paris, France. The Institute treats patients suffering from Down's Syndrome and other intellectual disabilities of genetic origin. A multidisciplinary team deals with all care for these patients, offering specialised Down's Syndrome consultations. Consultation with a neuropediatrician.

Resources and Research Memory Centre (CMRR), specializing in Alzheimers disease, Claude Pompidou Institute, Nice, France, Test to detect Alzheimers disease. The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) test is a specific test to detect executive disorders, most commonly used for dementia syndromes. (Photo by: BSIP/UIG via Getty Images)

Reportage in the Resources and Research Memory Centre (CMRR), specializing in Alzheimers disease in the Claude Pompidou Institute, Nice, France. Test to detect Alzheimers disease. The MMS (Mini-Mental State) test. The questionnaire enables the overall working cognitive functions such as memory, calculation, learning, spatio-temporal steering to be gauged, and all in the space of fifteen minutes.

Reportage in the Health and Prevention Centre run by the local committee for social hygiene (CDHS) in Lyon, France. Public vaccinations.

Reportage at the Lyon-Nord Rillieux polyclinic with an ENT (Ears, Nose & Throat) and Head and Neck surgery specialist. Consultation with a patient showing symptoms of sleep apnea. The ENT specialist presents various mandibular advancement braces (thermosettable or made-to-measure) to treat sleep apnea. The device is placed in the mouth to advance the lower jaw and tongue, which mechanically frees the airway in the throat.

Medical check-up run by IPL (Lille Institut Pasteur) in Arras, France. IPL delocalise these check-ups to help fragile sectors of the community who cannot travel to the Institute itself. Interview with a dietician.

Reportage on the Jeunes Pousses, a follow-up care and pneumo-pediatric rehabilitation unit specialising in climate therapy for asthma. The centre is located in Briançon, Frances highest town, which is part of WHOs Healthy Cities programme. At this altitude the oxygen partial pressure is reduced which has a positive effect on the cardio-vascular system. The concentration of allergens is also reduced. Briançon is one of the top places for high-altitude climate therapy due to its hours of sunlight, almost total lack of fog, its very low hygrometry, its almost total lack of dust mites, the scarcity of damp, its short pollen season and a very low levels of pollution. Romane, 12, suffers from asthma and comes from Lyon. She arrived at the Jeunes Pousses this year. Since she arrived her illness has stabilised. The children spend the morning and evening in the infirmary to take their medication.

Cancer radiotherapist with a female patient suffering from throat cancer in consultation for medical follow after radiotherapy treatment. Radiotherapy center, pole of Oncology, Hospital of Bordeaux. Hospital Haut-Leveque.

The clinical research in molecular oncology brings to the patients who wish it, the discovery of new molecules or new therapeutic strategies. Human Molecular Oncology laboratory of Oscar Lambret cancerology center, Lille, France.

Woman accompanied by her daughter in memory consultation with a geriatrician and a psychologist, Le Verger des Balans, Dordogne, France.

Report in the medical practice of Clamart (92). General medicine consultation.

Medical secretary

Elderly person in consultation

Doctor explaining reports to patient over computer in clinic

Clinical research in the Saint-Philibert hospital (GHICL) in Lille, France. A deaf patient having a cognitive evaluation. It involves various tests and exercises as well as a questionnaire on the patient's everyday life.

Functional assessment and advice on technical aids directed by an occupational therapist with a patient with rheumatoid polyartrite, Limoges hospital, France.

Woman Talking to Doctor

Reportage at Pause Diabolo, a risk reduction centre for drug users, in Lyon, France. Pause Diabolo sees drug users as part of a national French policy to reduce health hazards. This multidisciplinary helps deals with all aspects of life that are affected by drug use. It involves making risk reduction equipment available, helping with access to care, hygiene help, social mediation and helping gain access to benefits as well as social and professional reintegration. Weekly team meeting.

Gynecology and obstetrics space in Rouen hospital, France.

Care for deaf patients in sign language, Nice Hospital, France. A patient is visiting the doctor for her husband, who is also deaf, and very dependent. The service is helping this woman to carry out procedures to find a retirement home for her husband. ,NICE,PACA,FRANCE

Couple in consultation

Doctor consulting with a patient in a medical practice

$Reportage in a ophtalmological practice in Geneva, Switzerland. The medical secretary carries out an optical biometry with an auto kerato-refracto tonometer.$

Reportage in an audio prosthesist practice. Audiometry test that allows the hearing aid to be adjusted.

Beautician Discussing Treatment With Female Client

Clinical research in the Saint-Philibert hospital (GHICL) in Lille, France. A deaf patient having a cognitive evaluation. It involves various tests and exercises as well as a questionnaire on the patient's everyday life.

Blood analysis.

Reportage in the Health and Prevention Centre run by the local committee for social hygiene (CDHS) in Lyon, France. Public vaccinations.

Clinical research in the Saint-Philibert hospital (GHICL) in Lille, France. A deaf patient having a cognitive evaluation. It involves various tests and exercises as well as a questionnaire on the patient's everyday life.

Reportage in Nollet Clinic in Paris, France. Post-op consultation (hip replacement) with Dr Nogier, a hip surgeon. Examining x-rays.

Osteodensimetry.

Medical consultation of a 3 month old baby girl.

A radiologist in a white lab coat sitting at a workstation while analyzing an X-ray image of a patients hip in a medical imaging room. . Radiologist Analyzing X-Ray Scans in a Medical Imaging Room.

Doctor measuring patient's blood pressure.

Mother and daughter getting notice from doctors at table in clinic

Praying together

This internist in the centre of a larger city works mainly as a family doctor. The photo shows: The work of the team of medical assistants in the reception, Germany, Europe

A general practioner talks with a 50 yeras old patient during consultation.

Beautician Discussing Treatment With Female Client

Reportage in an ear, nose and throat clinic. Pure tone audiometry test.

Report at the Le Secq pharmacy, St Georges des Groseillers (61). Consultation with a nurse.

Report from a general practitioner in Clamart.

Reception of deaf patients in the Saint-Philibert hospital (GHICL) in Lille, France. Appointment with a doctor who uses sign language.

Pregnant woman in antenatal consultation. Prenatal diagnosis center, department of Obstetrics and Gynecologics, Limoges hospital, France.

Reportage in Nollet Clinic in Paris, France. Post-op consultation (hip replacement) with Dr Nogier, a hip surgeon. Explaining to the patient.

General practitioner with patient, Geveze, France.

Manipulating the neck, spine and thorax.

Reportage on a pediatrician who specializes in attachment theory in Lyon, France.

Prodys, a multidiciplinary consultation centre dedicated to dyslexia and Postural Deficiency Syndrome (PDS), Paris, France. Here, a pediatrician is talking with a 6 years old boy.

Clinical research in the Saint-Philibert hospital (GHICL) in Lille, France. A deaf patient having a cognitive evaluation. It involves various tests and exercises as well as a questionnaire on the patient's everyday life.

Photo essay at Henry Gabrielle hospital in Lyon, France. Urology consultation with Dr Nicolas Morel-Journel, surgeon-urologist. First consultation of a trans woman patient for a sex reassignment surgery, vaginoplasty.

the surprise of the report

Germany, Freiburg, Nurse's station in hospital

Photo essay in a country doctor's office, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Young woman having a blood sample.

Woman suffering from headache.

Healthcare professional conducting a checkup with a young patient

Consultation in a specialist group practice for orthopaedics on 28. 06. 2017 in Iserlohn, Germany, Europe

Pregnant woman in a waiting room.

Reportage on a community nurse making home visits in a rural area.

HAD AP-HP, Report on the digital pen. At the Fernand Widal Hospital: consultation of transmissions on the computer and viewing of forms completed at home.

Senior woman gesturing while talking with doctor through video call on laptop at home

Psychologist talking to patient while sitting on couch at office

Gynecology consultation

Care for deaf patients in sign language, Nice Hospital, France. Consultation with a patient who is under 40 and deaf, suffering from Usher syndrome, a genetic disease associating deafness and chorioretinitis with vestibular disorders. He has been in the service for almost 15 years. An intermediary is present. She is deaf and adapts her level of communication to be more clearly understood. She has a good level of education and intervenes to help the patient understand. This mediator does not oralize at all. Unlike the interpreter, she is not neutral and reformulates what the doctor says in order to be understood by the patient. The team helps the patient with benefits paperwork. ,NICE,PACA,FRANCE

The mother of twins born a few weeks early takes care of them.

Medical practice, doctor talking to a patient about an ECG finding, Germany, Europe

Care for deaf patients in sign language, Nice Hospital, France. Consultation with a patient who is under 40 and deaf, suffering from Usher syndrome, a genetic disease associating deafness and chorioretinitis with vestibular disorders. He has been in the service for almost 15 years. An intermediary is present. She is deaf and adapts her level of communication to be more clearly understood. She has a good level of education and intervenes to help the patient understand. This mediator does not oralize at all. Unlike the interpreter, she is not neutral and reformulates what the doctor says in order to be understood by the patient.,NICE,PACA,FRANCE

Reportage in a doctor's office (Brittany, France).

Medical consultation of the patient before injection of the Covid-19 vaccine in a vaccination center. Covid 19 vaccination center in Abbeville (80), Pfizer vaccine.

This GP group practice with four GPs and eight physician assistants provides care to a large number of patients in a medium, sized town. Reception, Germany, Europe

Medico-psychiatric unit for teenagers and young adults. This is a place for verbal, emotional and body expression of patient's psychic suffering. Contractual short-term hospitalization aims at monitoring and preventing crisis such as suicidal behaviour, depression, eating disorder, alcoholism, phobia, etc. Here, a new patient talking with her referring nurse. Psychiatry unit managed by Dr Rachel Bocher, Nantes university hospital, France.

In the family doctor's consultation. Paediatrics, Germany, Europe

Reportage at Pause Diabolo, a risk reduction centre for drug users, in Lyon, France. Pause Diabolo sees drug users as part of a national French policy to reduce health hazards. This multidisciplinary helps deals with all aspects of life that are affected by drug use. It involves making risk reduction equipment available, helping with access to care, hygiene help, social mediation and helping gain access to benefits as well as social and professional reintegration. Céline, an educator, chats to a drug user during the women only day.

Doctor using a stethoscope on a patient.

Reportage in the Resources and Research Memory Centre (CMRR), specializing in Alzheimers disease in the Claude Pompidou Institute, Nice, France. Cognitive rehabilitation and stimulation session with a patient suffering from light to moderate cognitive disorders run by a psychologist. The MeMo app offers a series of specific exercises on memory and concentration. An exercise to work on cognitive function in which a name is placed next to a face enabling the person to recognize it.

Dermatologist explaining benefits of medical procedure to patient in clinic

Photo essay at Lyon hospital, France. Department of urology. Medical check-up.

Reportage in the orthopedic service of Robert Bellanger Hospital in France. Nursing station.

Doctor examining patient with stethoscope

The crowds at the GP's surgery - here in the Eving district of Dortmund - are particularly heavy at the beginning of the quarter, Consultation, Germany, Europe

HAD (Hospitalization At Home). Follow-up of an elderly patient at home by a nurse. Nurse completing the transmission notebook.

Reportage in an independent midwife practice in Ham, in the Somme region of France. Pelvic floor rehabilitation session.

Elderly patient typing credit card pin on pos paying for medication treatment and appointment during checkup visit

France, Drugstore, Pharmacist With Prescription

Therapy, mental health and therapist talking to a child with anxiety for comfort in clinic. Psychology, healthcare and female kid psychologist speaking to young boy in office at wellness center

Smiling woman reading medical report in front of female dentist at clinic

Reportage in the Health and Prevention Centre run by the local committee for social hygiene (CDHS) in Lyon, France. Public vaccinations.

Doctor explaining medical diagnosis online in office setting

A hospital doctor comments prostate ultrasound scan with a patient.

Woman in consultation

Doctors and nurses discussing patient records

Daily meeting in the emergency department to take stock after the night. The case of each patient is discussed.

Reportage in an allergy specialist practice in Geneva. The allergy specialist carries out skin allergy tests by administering allergens on the upper part of the skin . He then observes the reaction to determine the allergen responsible for the hypersensitivity .

Cancer radiotherapist with a female patient suffering from throat cancer in consultation for medical follow after radiotherapy treatment. Radiotherapy center, pole of Oncology, Hospital of Bordeaux. Hospital Haut-Leveque.

The coordinators take incoming calls and making an initial assessment of the situation before passing the communication on to the doctors.

Reportage in a rehabilitation centre in Germany, specialising in neurological rehabilitation after a stroke or head injury. The centre is equipped with a number of robotic technologies which facilitate exercises. A patient who suffered a head injury uses the SaeboFlex with the help of a physiotherapist. The SaeboFlex, which is worn like a glove, helps the patient to open his hand when grasping an object.

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