I don't want any U.S. doctors facing homicide charges because some non- English speaker shows up at an emergency room in pain and pointing to her mid-section, but can't explain that she's pregnant and feels as if she may be starting to miscarry, and the doctor can't figure out what's going on until it's too late.
That's not what happened at all. The woman was there for a scheduled exam, not some emergency. The doctor who was to remove the other woman's coil, came into the waiting room and called out the name, Mrs. Vo, and the wrong Mrs. Vo then followed him. He tried to talk to her, noticed that she didn't speak much French, read her file (the wrong file), then proceeded to attempt removal of a nonexistent coil without even examining her beforehand. After he pierced her amniotic sac, oops, he examined her, noticed that she looked pregnant, and finally the mistaken identity was realized. She was then admitted to the hospital because she had lost so much amniotic fluid. The doctor was a complete idiot. Even worse, the next day, the hospital almost performed the other Mrs.Vo's surgery on the pregnant Mrs. Vo by mistake. Luckily the anesthetist recognized her. Dumbshits all around.
There may well have been a lot of incompetence involved -- aggravated by the fact that the patient couldn't speak or understand French, and thus couldn't understand what was being said by the doctors and nurses attending her. But incompetence isn't homicide.
I don't know much about France's health care system, but given that this is the country with the nutty 35-hour work week limit, I assume it's some sort of socialist monstrosity. Incompetence is certainly the norm in the UK's socialist health care system, and it probably is in France's as well. But in fairness to the unfortunate professionals who have to work in these systems, the systems can overwhelm even competent doctors and nurses, and that may well be what happened in this case.