Doctors cannot be considered as « adjustment variables » of a faulty health system – Liberation

This start of the week is marked in public health by strike days and demonstrations against a bill for regulating the installation of doctors. Supported by the order of doctors, SOS doctors, liberal doctors, students and internal in medicine, this movement is opposed to the Garot bill, which aims to fight against medical deserts. The first article of this law was voted in early April in the National Assembly.

The bill provides that a doctor wishing to settle in liberal exercise cannot be established in an area where the supply of care is considered to be sufficient, except in the event of cessation of activity of a practitioner already in place. For the past few weeks, this bill has reacted a lot: between those who accuse the doctors of selfishness and those who denounce an imposed sacrifice, the debate is very tense.

As a student in medicine, directly concerned by our future mode of exercise, we need to recall an essential thing: to refuse this law is not to refuse our social mission. On the contrary. We are fully aware of the urgency to act to restore better equity in access to care, and we are ready to commit to changing things.

Yes, we recognize the urgency of rethinking access to care. Yes, we know that it is essential to find sustainable solutions to compensate for territorial imbalances. No one denies the urgency