Medical deserts or political desolation? – release

Never, perhaps, as much as in our time the sentence attributed to Bossuet, « God laughs at men who deplore the effects they cherish in the causes », has expressed the contradictions and hypocrisy of our health policies. The hospital is bad, we know it. And, for good reason, successive governments have continued to reduce hospitalization beds and put the care services on the dry diet. Liberal medicine has not been doing much better since our engineering managers, with the corporatist complicity of practitioners fearing competition, established a numerus clausus of which they have, both, difficult to correct the disastrous effects.

In short, all this is known, and the logistical rationality of the figures has proven there as elsewhere a calamity. Faced with this health, social and psychological debacle, we could have hoped that policies learn some lessons, – at the forefront of which: care is not reduced to figures, caregivers are not interchangeable pawns that we move for the sake of anesthetize social anger.

It is unreasonable to solve the problem of medical deserts by making simplistic solutions prevail, by inviting or better by obliging newly graduated doctors to settle there. Admittedly, the country doctor of formerly was the only one who had to take care of his patients, but he was alone with the others in the village or the urban district. Formerly a doctor could ex