After surviving COVID-19, French neurosurgeon faces long road to recovery


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  • Friday, 01 May 2020

French paediatric neurosurgeon Georg Dorfmuller (61-year-old) poses in a room at the post COVID-19 unit of the Le Parc Hospital in Taverny near Paris during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, April 30, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

TAVERNY, France (Reuters) - Georg Dorfmuller had hardly been sick during a career that saw him rise to become a top paediatric neurosurgeon in Paris, but all that changed when he contracted COVID-19.

The 61-year-old head of service at the private Adolphe de Rothschild Hospital Foundation fell ill at the end of March.

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