“”I sometimes shoot my videos out of care, because the lack of sleep uninhibited me“, A fun François-Xavier Moronval, emergency doctor in Epinal, more than 45,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, Doc FX.
He alternates this kind of format “to the uproot, at the feeling, which provides a quick response“On a question of health and longer modules that are similar to mini-rebelling, for example”How to manage cardiac arrest on an airplane“.
The same goes for Dr. Jules Fougère, an emergency pediatrician at the Rouen University Hospital (Seine-Maritime), 282,000 subscribers on Instagram, who can either tell his guard of a “in thirty seconds” trait or concoct a video of a few minutes on the risk of alcohol during pregnancy.
Above all, do not treat them with influencers. “”We do not praise make-up (makeup), we are in popularization, the verification of sources, we are above all graduates in health“, insists Jérémy Guy, emergency artist at SMUR 93 (Seine-Saint-Denis), more than 95,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, the minutes of Jérémy.
“Organizational question”
All three recently led a conference, at the invitation of the French Society of Emergency Medicine (SFMU), at the Congress of the Profession in Paris. A sign of recognition of their peers, which has not always been obvious.
“”At the beginning, in the hospital, you are asked why you do the stupid on your videos, then one day a colleague asks you +but why you do not make a video on the bustle of the patients, I had one who did not stop yelling! +“, Says François-Xavier Moronval, in his forties.
How to reconcile professional life and content created for networks? “”It’s a matter of organization, I even managed to get married“, laughs Jules Fougère, who specifies more seriously devoting to it” a dedicated day “in accordance with his department heads.
Beyond presenting pathologies such as endometriosis (which affects women and is poorly detected), these connected emergency artists sometimes go up to the niche against unhealthy modes. “”Like the +paracetamol challenge +, on Tiktok, which consists in swallowing the most to have the longest hospitalization“, laments Jules Fougère, whose internet address @ped.urg earned him his nickname, pronounced” pedurge “.
Their vocation on the networks was born from the same observation of a lack: “On the networks, you could repair your bathroom with a tutorial but not + repair + your child“Summarizes Jules Fougère, thirty -something, also a columnist in the program” La Maison des Maternelles “on France 2.
“Death threats”
All also fight at their level against “fake news”. Jérémy Guy, on the networks for six years, struggled during the Covid crisis to demonstrate how “Professor Raoult, renowned scientist, had plunged into conspiracy and manipulated the general public“.
“”Obviously, we swing you + how, you only have a master 2 and dare to contradict this teacher? + And then there are insults …“, Reports this thirties. With his athlete’s build, it is that of the three who is the least afraid of scraping with the” haters “and other cyber harasslers online.
François-Xavier Moronval admits having left at the Twitter time, now X, for YouTube, “traumatized by certain death threats“.
Another setback of the medal, the digital burn-out watched Jérémy Guy: “In the first years, I was putting myself too much pressure on my posts, I looked at my stats, if they were seen or commented, it was toxic; Since then, I have taken a step back“.
Their exhibition is also good. “”+My husband is electrician, he can go to your home tonight+, I was answered on the networks when I had a breakdown at home“, Slides Jules Fougère.