“I am a field doctor, people can trust me”

The general practitioner, who is still practicing, succeeds the historical presenter of the program, Marina Carrère d’Encausse. He promises to answer all public health questions, but also to do more prevention.

Last May, France Télévisions announced that it wanted to stop the “Magazine de la santé” after 25 years of good and loyal service. That was without counting on the strong mobilization of viewers and personalities. In the front row, standing tall, we found Michel Cymes and the emblematic presenter of the show, Marina Carrère d’Encausse, who responded to this announcement without beating around the bush: “The magazine is not essential, but providing health care in public service is absolutely essential.“

While the latter has left for new adventures, the “Health Magazine” will be back on Monday, September 9 at 1:35 p.m. on France 5 with another doctor at its head, Doctor Jimmy Mohamed. Well known to viewers, the one who continues to practice his profession at SOS Médecin, takes the reins of the program, four years after his arrival in the magazine. Relieved by this decision, he explains why this program remains necessary: ​​”We have a public service mission, it is a public health program, we alert, we advise, we guide“.

And it is prevention that he especially wants to highlight this season: “Health is not just: I have a stomach ache, I have cancer, I have a sprain. No, health is also diet, sleep, physical activity, sexuality“, he analyzes. A change of formula which will mix both the subjects around public health, prevention with a touch of scientific seriousness in the face of the ambient conspiracy theories,”a scientific word that we can believe in“, he specifies.

With busy weeks between the “Health Magazine” and his medical activity, Jimmy Mohamed does not rule out presenting other shows in the future, “As long as we talk about health, it can be in any form, it can be on the radio, in books, on social networks.“. According to him, it is another way of doing public health, but if there is one thing that drives him, it is that he does not forget his primary mission under the spotlight: “I am a field doctor, people can trust me“.