Rennes

This week, my Health Policy took a trip to Rennes. We stayed and studied at EHESP, which is a school of public health and management in France. It is where all managers of public hospital are currently trained. From Wednesday-Friday, we had various lectures concerning public health issues in Europe like long-term care for the elderly, comparative health costs in different EU countries, culture, and inequalities of health. We also visited a hospital in Rennes where we dressed in scrubs and watched parts of a lung cancer surgery and a heart valve replacement surgery. The hospital was really interesting because it's a public hospital (like Ohio State), but the facilities definitely aren't as nice even though they do the same types of operations and procedures. Americans definitely like to be pampered when they're in the hospital!

In Rennes we also:
-Ate at a delicious creperie, paid for by Northwestern
-Ate delicious Moroccan food
-Visited Rue de la Soif, Road of Thirst, which is infamous for all of it's bars and students (the area around Rennes is known for its smart students and schools, but also for the highest amount of alcohol consumption in France)

Overall, it was great to be out of paris for a few days and see more of a "college town" of France. And I'm also really happy about the current exchange rate: 1 Euro = 1.2602 U.S. dollars