He has been practicing in Talange for 40 years as a general practitioner, but he still does not want to throw in the towel. Officially retired for 2 years, Vincent Crocitti still receives around fifty consultations per week. “It’s hard to interrupt an activity that you love“, he confides. And from now on, he will even add a new string to his bow by joining the Hayange hospital this Monday.
Address medical deserts
“It is an outpatient department in Hayange hospital, and this approach to medicine seems to me to be a possibility for the future.“, he describes. And the future, it passes through retired doctors, since Vincent Crocitti will join 4 other colleagues already involved in this structure, also retired, at the rate of one work week per month. A sixth would also be about to put down his stethoscope. One of the solutions to the lack of practitioners, sometimes significant in the Fensch valley. “It is important to keep these nearby hospitals.“
The other alternative, according to him, would be to train more young people, many of whom have been blocked by the numerus clausus in recent decades. But before seeing the arrival of new and more numerous generations, we will have to wait time. “It takes 10 years to train a doctor.“So in the meantime, Vincent Crocitti intends to establish himself for a few more years in the Moselle landscape, without forgetting his patients in Talange. “I continue my liberal activity especially to accompany the few patients at home, that nobody will see and who will have difficulties of follow-up“, he concludes.