This text suggests the deletion of treating physicians within 6 months.
Established in 2004, the attending physician became a pillar of our health system. He follows his patients in the long term, knows their medical history, warns, guides, coordinates … In short, it is the benchmark of millions of French people in their care path. But this central figure may well disappear. This is in any case what the Republicans offer seven deputies in an amendment tabled within the framework of the bill on access to care, report our colleagues from Doctor daily. The text suggests that the government makes a report on the abolition of the attending physician (or the referring doctor) within 6 months of the promulgation of the law.
For these deputies, the model of the attending physician would have become an obstacle to access to care. They point to a well -known reality: 6 million French people have no or no more attending a doctor. Among them, 600,000 have a long -term condition (ALD). “”It is time to rethink the relationship between doctors and patients “, They advance, in a context of growing medical desertification.
But what would be the risk of such suppression? Medicine “à la carte“, fragmented, without follow -up.”CThey make no sense (….) It will be open bar … The patient will consult who he wants, without any follow -up“, alerts Dr. Jean-Christophe Nogrette, deputy secretary general of the MG France generalist union (French Federation of General practitioners). He recalls that studies carried out in Europe and the United States are however formal: having a treating physician improves life expectancy and reduces health costs. Without a referring doctor, monitoring disappears. And with him, the coherence of care.
For the time being, the text has not yet been adopted. He will be debated in Parliament next May. But already, many unions are concerned about its consequences. MG France – Like other liberal unions – calls on the State not to give in to a only political logic. On the contrary, it is necessary to invest massively to make the profession of doctor more attractive – and not make it disappear.
