Algerian trust in French hospitals surged once an Algerian doctor commanded the decision.

Evidence

A change in attitude on the part of the Algerian toward the occupier’s hospital centers was likewise to be noted. It would in fact happen that the need of a particular medication or of a surgical operation impossible to carry out in the maquis would cause the doctor to advise the civilian to let himself be transferred to a hospital directed by the French. The hesitations and refusals that had been met with before the Revolution vanished and the population would follow the orders given by the Algerian doctor in the maquis. This new attitude was very marked in 1956–57. I had occasion during this period to visit a great number of hospitals. The European doctors expressed their surprise to me at the time. Since the war, they said, “the Moslems let themselves be treated in the hospitals in the proportion of five to one as compared to the preceding years. One wonders why this is so.” It should also be added that the hospital administrations in the maquis had a strategic interest in having civilians cared for by the French and keeping medical supplies for the soldiers, who could not be evacuated. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 470

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the same logic as Fanon’s chapter on medicine elsewhere: trust in the occupier’s care depends on the colonized’s own authority mediating it. — connects to: Algerians accepted French hospital treatment only when Algerian doctors approved it; Algerian willingness to use French hospitals changed when orders came from maquis doctors; Algerian doctors were reintegrated into the people when they joined the revolution

Related

• Algerian willingness to use French hospitals changed when orders came from maquis doctors (similarity 0.97)
• Algerians accepted French hospital treatment only when Algerian doctors approved it (similarity 0.94)
• Algerian doctors were reintegrated into the people when they joined the revolution (similarity 0.81)
• French authorities compelled doctors to report wounded Algerians under legal penalty. (similarity 0.78)
• Algerians refused hospitalization until death was nearly certain (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Algerian doctors were reintegrated into the people when they joined the revolution #corroborates (0.55)