Uncertain consultations, a good idea built on the ruins of a health system – Liberation

Christian Lehmann is a doctor and author. As for “Liberation,” it chronicles a society long affected by the coronavirus. Today, the dilapidation of healthcare provision is leading doctors to treat differently to compensate for the overload crisis and the shortage of general practitioners, who are themselves overwhelmed.

The health system is broken. We thrive in its ruins, without fully realizing it. Of course, there are still caregivers, and patients, many patients… for whom access to care is often a problem, as noted. publication In the article on medical centers open seven days a week, and the enthusiasm of a large part of the population for these places “Get to designated care”. Patients who thronged there that day spoke of an obstacle course to get an “easy” consultation. One was reprimanded by her attending physician because she was too late and did not “As soon as the symptoms appear and the day before”, Another was upset that she had not offered her an appointment for two weeks, while a third, without a doctor, took a long bus journey to the centre.

What we read in this article is our daily life. The daily life of caregivers trying to fit the practice’s patients into a schedule that resembles a fast-paced Tetris, the daily life of patients who are sometimes reprimanded (how can a patient know if he’s calling too early or too late, depending on the workload Is. their doctor’s?) or left to their own devices because it’s impossible