We must “work on what makes part of the population turn to these excesses”.
“It is also up to traditional medicine to question the why” sectarian excesses in medicine, poses Wednesday November 15 on franceinfo Luc Duquesnel, general practitioner in Mayenne, president of the general practitioner branch of the Confederation of French Medical Unions (CSMF).
A bill to combat sectarian abuses, particularly those in medicine, is presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. In particular, it plans to strengthen the legal arsenal to combat abuses in medicine, which represent a third of reports. It provides, for example, for a new offense, that of pushing a person not to seek treatment or for treatment through unrecognized practices, and the reporting to the order of doctors or pharmacists of practitioners’ convictions, even when they are not definitive.
“Psychological distress” of patients
The president of the CSMF, Luc Duquesnel, views this bill favorably, but he believes that “information to populations must be important”. The fight against sectarian aberrations “cannot be anything other than prohibiting and sanctioning”it’s necessary “to work on what makes part of the population turn to these excesses”.
According to the latest figures from Miviludes, the interministerial mission for vigilance and the fight against sectarian abuses which he cites, “four out of 10 French people use this type of medicine, including 60% among cancer patients.” This numbers “also question why there are so many patients who resort to this type of medicine and question the uneasiness of the population with regard to traditional medicine”, he points
In particular, it identifies a blind spot in the care of certain patients: “It is also up to traditional medicine to question why? In what ways do we have inadequacies? Today, we probably have inadequacies of traditional medicine in the treatment of certain pathologies, particularly of people affected by of cancer and the psychological distress in which they are, and which makes them turn to alternative medicine”.