“I was very happy to find them!, loose Pierre Muller, glasses and mask on his face, while waiting for his appointment time in front of the Tarterêts medical group, in Corbeil-Essonnes (Essonne), in the south of the Ile-de-France region. My doctor retired and after that it was “get it off!” » This 66-year-old man, followed for five years by Dr. Vincendon, in particular for hypertension, did not have to search too long. “At the doctors below [le centre-ville]nobody wanted to take mehe says. One even has a sign on the door saying he’s not taking new patients. It was the pharmacist who told me to come here. » Since then, the former sales consultant at Carrefour, who started working at 14, measures his luck. “Even when my doctor is not here, there is a substitute. It sure is luxury. »
Inside the multi-professional health center (MSP), created and installed since 2015 in the new buildings that are being built at high speed in the south of Tarterêts, the waiting room is always full. A large door opens, leading to an army of healers. Five general practitioners, three physiotherapists, two liberal nurses, a dietician, a chiropodist-pedicure, an osteopath… And even two specialists: a psychiatrist and a cardiologist, installed in the left wing of these 600 square meters on the ground floor . “We are well equipped”notes Dr. Enora Vincendon, a 39-year-old general practitioner, who does not forget to present the balneotherapy pool, the only one for miles around.
The structure, which unites liberal professionals, succeeded a classic practice of doctors, physiotherapists and nurses, which had already existed for nearly thirty years in the heart of Tarterêts. These multi-professional houses, which have doubled, with health centers, over the past five years, according to the government, are among the solutions put forward by many players in the sector to fight against medical deserts, with their attractiveness for young doctors inclined to exercise collective. Financially supported by the State, they give rise to various commitments by professionals around coordinated work, on public missions such as prevention, or even on the implementation of “care protocols” to take charge of certain pathologies. Collective meetings, once a month, allow them to discuss together patients whose condition raises questions.
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