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Nearly six million French people do not officially have attending physicians. With the development of medical sites, some believe they can treat themselves. According to an IFOP survey, 88% of French people have already used non-prescription drugs.
To relieve health professionals, could we become our own doctors for everyday ailments? Self-medication is practiced by 88% of French people according to the FIFG, against 58% 20 years ago. Medicines without prescriptions enthroned prominently in this Parisian pharmacy. The pharmacist plays the role of advisor, especially for the oldest people.
Non-prescription drugs are not reimbursed
For lack of an available appointment with their attending physician, some even push their self-medication further. The pharmacy now only provides the number of antibiotics requested by the doctor to avoid any problem. According to one study, 91.4 million prescriptions were for first-line drugs last year. But for doctors, these are not useless consultations. With inflation, some patients give up buying drugsfirst resort treatments, because without a prescription, they are not reimbursed.
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