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Health: soon self-declared work stoppages?
Health: soon self-declared work stoppages?
(FRANCE 2)
Patients could soon self-declare their sick leave, without needing to go to the doctor. But this proposal from the Court of Auditors is not unanimous.
In a new report, the Court of Auditors suggests eliminating medical certificates for very short work stoppages. In practice, patients could self-declare their sick leave, but this proposal is not unanimous. “It’s not possible, there will be too much abuse”, estimates a woman, Tuesday May 14. This procedure would allow doctors to not waste time, focusing on the patients who need the most care.
“We are killing his dog saying he has rabies”
An inadmissible argument for the union of general practitioners. “We are killing our dog by saying it has rabies, by demolishing general medicine and the real role of primary care medicine”, deplores Didier Simon, general delegate of the union of General Practitioners of France. This recommendation comes in a context where the French often struggle to quickly obtain a medical consultation. According to a recent study, half of medical appointments with a general practitioner are obtained in less than three days.
