In small villages, in particular, finding a doctor is sometimes a feat. Indeed, fewer and fewer health professionals are settling in small villages and prefer large cities. Or, doctors who retire are never replaced. Quite simply because some no longer want to practice their profession. This is the sad observation made by Marina Carrère d’Encausse, this Wednesday, April 26 on “C to You”.
“Why do retiring doctors not find replacements?”asked Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine before the doctor, and host, answered: “But because, first of all, we don’t have enough doctors. It takes ten years to train a doctor, so you have to wait those ten years.” “And then the doctors are like all French people, they no longer want to work as before”, she blurted out afterwards. According to her, doctors today “no longer want to work weekends, they no longer want to work at night unless they are part of SOS Médecins or this kind of organization”.
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Doctors, exhausted, according to Marina Carrère d’Encausse
But Marina Carrère d’Encausse wanted to provide some clarification on her statement which can cause a strong reaction in this period of controversy around the pension reform: “They also want to have a social life, to see their family. We have a real concern for doctors and continuity of care”. The facilitator also assures that “the profession is no longer so attractive”in particular because of the “low pay” which is a real problem.
In addition, the era changed depending on which one was the victim of a serious accident. “At the time, the doctor came with his wife. His wife was usually his secretary, his assistant, and the children were at the local school. Today they no longer want to follow their husbands or their wives automatically”. Subsequently, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine broadcast a magneto in which a general practitioner expressed her discomfort.
She returned to her exhaustion when she was still practicing as a liberal doctor. Today she “work in a health center”said the facilitator before asking if it could be a solution. “It can be for the doctor, not for the patient because the patient does not help him for the night, nor for the weekend”regrets Marina Carrère d’Encausse.
However, the ex-acolyte of Michel Cymes explains that this can still be a solution for doctors. To combat burnout. “It allows them to have a more structured life, to have schedules, to know that at 7 p.m. they will be finished and be home at 8 a.m.”she details before however warning: “but that absolutely does not solve the problem either of medical deserts, or of the permanence of care”.
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