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December 27, 2022
Since Monday, general practitioners and specialists have been on strike. They demand a revaluation of consultations to 50 euros and denounce their working conditions.
After a first strike at the beginning of December, the liberal practitioners are on strike again this Monday for a week. They demand better working conditions and an increase in the consultation fee.
Consultations at 50 euros
“Doctors work an average of 55 hours per week and more than 20% of working time is outside consultation: administrative, practice management“, notes Christelle Audigier, general practitioner and founder of the group Doctors for tomorrow, who calls on general practitioners to close their practices from this Monday.
Result ? The profession is exhausted – the suicide rate is 2.6 times higher than the rest of the population – and works in “degraded” conditions.
This is why doctors are asking for an increase in the basic price of consultations to 50 euros – by 2025 at the latest – in order to make the profession more attractive.
Claims, more than justified according to Dr. Jean-Paul Hamon, general practitioner.
“The doctors are on strike so that there is a real revaluation of the profession and so that the government stops dismantling the profession. If we are to believe the authorities, it is possible to overcome the lack of doctors with teleconsultation… but this is not the case. Only general practitioners know their patients, their history, their reactions… Without this approach, we are witnessing a terrible deterioration in the care of patients.“, protests the expert before adding “The government has known for a month that this strike is going to take place. So let no one tell us that we are oblivious because the government had the means to stop it, by starting negotiations.”
We are witnessing a “proletarianization of medicine”
A cry of alarm from liberal doctors, supported by Dr Kierzek, emergency doctor and medical director of Doctissimo.
“The health world is not doing well. The links in the care chain are broken, general medicine is devalued. Health professionals suffer multiple constraints for 25 euros. We are witnessing a proletarianization of medicine… whereas the profession should be restored to its former glory. We will not replace it with artificial intelligence“says the emergency doctor, before adding”The interests of our health system converge, we are all united by the white coat. To be heard, it is therefore necessary to join forces and stop making soft strikes with “On strike” plasters stuck in the back!“