“It won’t work, it is lost beforehand.” Many doctors and medical students are going up to the niche in recent days against an article in a transparty bill, adopted on Wednesday, April 2 by the National Assembly, whose objective is to fight against medical deserts.
“Anything is great,” protests, for example, Michael Rochoy, general practitioner installed in Outfutau (Pas-de-Calais).
The article in the heart of criticism plans to regulate the installation of doctors, whether liberal or employees. If it was approved after the text exam at the beginning of May, the latter should now obtain the agreement of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) to establish. Authorization would be automatic in the area under the realization, but conditioned to another doctor in better equipped areas.
“There is no hope that things positively change”
However, in the eyes of this 38 -year -old general practitioner, “there is no hope that this law positively changes things.” It is “counterproductive and harmful to accessing attention.” “Today, we have a problem of medical shortage and force doctors will not increase the installed number. Just move the problem.”
“In the best case, nothing will change at all,” he says. “In the worst case, this law will identify many young doctors, will lead to new very specific problems,”.
This measure is also “a very bad idea” for Iseult Le Bars, a third-year medical student at the University of Paris-Cité. “Our study and working conditions are worse worse, and there we are added that … the more advances in internships and studies, the more catastrophic the situation is. Two years ago, they already added a year of internship,” deplores the 25 -year -old girl.
“It is not the best method to make me want. I think it will dislike as many people as possible to choose this sector, while the profession of the general professional is already less and less attractive. Frankly, in my university, I know that very few people who want to make generalists and many speak abroad abroad for that, and because there are more and more restrictions. By force, we feel that we are in a barrel. Used “. Used”.
A measure that lacks realism
Jean-Christophe Notette, general practitioner of Feytiat and president of the Union of General Practices of France (MG France) in Haute-Vienne, does not hide his concerns about this measure. According to him, she is disconnected from the reality of health professionals and may not effectively meet their needs. He calls especially to train more doctors to meet demand.
“You have 100 boxes but only 90 pawns. Every year, you lose a pawn,” he tries to illustrate. “How many years will you take to force 90, 89, 88, 87 pawns to fill the 100 boxes? He says that, is it obvious, right? He just can’t work.”
In the National Assembly, the socialist deputy Guillaume Garot, who begins the initiative of the bill with a transparty group hit that “six million French (were) without a treating doctor, eight million French live in a medical desert.” An inequality that creates a “harmful feeling for our republic that failed in its promise of equality of all before health.”
This position, “is pure and simple demagogy” in the eyes of Jean-Christophe Notette. “Mr. Garot knows that he will not work, that his law will resolve anything at all, but does these media Tintamarre because he wants to be associated with the fight against medical deserts.”
A system already considered “too restrictive”
Especially because it finds that the system is already too restrictive for doctors, which could push even more about them to leave the profession or exercise otherwise. “Get in the place of young and newly graduated doctors. We tell them: ‘If you want to establish yourself in Liberal, you will have to ask the Ars authorization to put your dish in that place, or maybe it will not be given’.”
“Faced with that, many will prefer to do something else,” warns the health professional. “They will go, for example, employees in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation services, aesthetic medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, nutrition or hospital medicine.”
Last week, around fifteen organizations representing liberal doctors had already denounced this measure in a press release. They believe that the regulation considered “coercive” would run the risk of having counterproductive effects on access to attention. Arguments rejected by the defenders of the regulation: “Doctors will have freedom of installation of 87% of the territory,” he insisted on Philippe Vigier (Modem).
On Tuesday, April 1, Prime Minister François Bayrou said he was in favor of a “regulation” form, but called to build a solution plan that includes all actors at the end of April. The debates about the rest of the text, which provides an abolition of the prices of patients without attending doctors, or the restoration of the obligation to participate in the permanence of care, must resume the week of May 5.
Source: BFM TV
