Olivier Veran finally abandoned his career as a cosmetologist and returned to neurology.

He is to become a volunteer consultant in neurology in Grenoble. Former Health Minister Olivier Véran has refused to become an esthetician, a specialty he announced he would pursue, he told Dauphiné Libéré on Monday. “I will never practice aesthetic medicine because I will not validate the training I completed this summer,” he told a regional daily. “I return to Isère, freed from ties with Paris,” he added.

In March, the former minister announced that, in parallel with his parliamentary mandate, he was starting training at the Champs-Elysees clinic in Paris to become an esthetician. He explained that he turned to this specialty to “help people feel better about themselves, their bodies” and “recover themselves after illness.”

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He also told the Le Figaro newspaper that his former discipline, neuroscience, had changed too much, and he said he feared his relationships with patients would be “disturbed” by his background in government. The former minister will eventually become “a voluntary consultant in neurology at the University Hospital of Grenoble after being assessed by (his) colleagues and the Council of the Order,” as required by procedure, he announced.

“I would like to point out that the decision to return to neurology and not to practice aesthetic medicine actually preceded the dissolution of the party,” assures the man who stood for re-election in the first constituency of Isère. Reinvested by Renaissance for early legislative elections, Olivier Veran, however, will show himself “without party logic.” “I received the presidential majority and decided to go there with full freedom of thought, tone and action,” he explains, claiming to see himself as a “social democrat.”