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Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; annacwilliams@yahoo.co.uk

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I have just returned from a postdoctoral research post at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in Paris. After two years there, I am in a position to compare their neurology practice with that in the UK (or at least Edinburgh) and the French way of life with the British. I should mention now that I am a complete Francophile, so this is not unbiased opinion.

Paris has a bad reputation among tourists for harbouring perhaps the most unhelpful and rude locals in Europe. Admittedly, Charles de Gaulle airport cannot be surpassed for lack of signs directing bemused foreigners even towards the exit, and for actively unhelpful staff—odd, bearing in mind the reverse situation in the Paris Metro. However, once in Paris itself, I have always found the story completely different. Rude Parisians exist, but most people tried to understand what I was saying, to help out, and were genuinely interested . . . [Full text of this article]

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