Patrick Froehlich
Patrick Froehlich (born 5th August 1961) is a French writer and physician. For several decades, he practiced surgery and has published seven novels. His main subjects are children's pain, the struggle against disease and the trauma resulting from situations on the edge of life. He contributed to the development of image-guided mini invasive surgery. Biography Froehlich lived in Lyon, Brussels, and later settled in Montreal. He is the author of seven novels. He began by publishing numerous scientific articles and works in the area of airway pediatric surgery. He contributed to the development of imagery-guided, minimally-invasive surgery. He practiced medicine at the CHU in Lyon as a university professor and attending physician until 2017 and, from 2009 to 2014, as a Full Professor attached to the University of Montreal. He has written the trilogy Corps étrangers (Foreign bodies) for Les Allusifs publishing house (Montreal). These are fictions that spring from real situations: the pain that children suffer, the fight against sickness, the effects of situations encountered by surgeons at life's far extremes. The novel Avant tout ne pas nuire (First, Do No Harm) ( Primum non noccere) a work halfway between fiction and documentary, is, according to the leading French