DECRYPTION – Several thousand liberal practitioners demonstrated Thursday in the streets of Paris. Beyond the question of remuneration, the malaise of general practitioners is profound.
“To treat well, a doctor must be happy”, launches Dr Jérôme Marty, general practitioner in Haute-Garonne and media boss of the Union française pour une médecine libre (UFML) union. Born in 2012 from the movement of “pigeon doctors”, the UFML supports, with others (but not the majority unions of the profession which are the Confederation of French medical unions and MG France), the strike movement launched at the beginning of December by the very young Doctors for Tomorrow collective, born on Facebook in September and which claims more than 16,000 participants.
Their flagship claim: a basic consultation with the general practitioner set at €50, instead of €25. “Doctors work an average of 55 hours per week and more than 20% of working time is outside consultation: administrative, practice management”castigates the collective, which demands a “a real shock (…) to promote approved installation”.
“Very concrete measures with very specific review clauses”
According to the organizers, 4000 doctors marched this Thursday in Paris; 2300, according to…
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