DOUAI, France — Her mother’s death had been expected. Terminally ill with breast cancer, she lay in a medical bed in her living room, visited daily by a nurse. “Madame, there’s nobody on weekends, there’s no doctor,’’ she was told when she called the emergency services. We can’t leave a body until Monday morning.’’’She turned off the heaters and flung open the windows. Police officers came, followed by the mayor of Monchecourt, the local municipality, solicitous but powerless in finding a doctor.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2019 04:52 UTC