There is currently a heated debate as to whether the 3G regulation may also apply to visits to the doctor.
Statutory health insurance doctors even advocate separate consultation hours for vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
Since the beginning of the Corona vaccination campaign, Germany has split into two camps: that of the vaccinated and that of the unvaccinated. In the current fourth corona wave, the situation is coming to a head, also because unvaccinated people in particular suffer from severe corona courses and have to be treated in clinics.
In order to reduce the number of newly infected and to relieve intensive care units *, stricter corona measures are currently being prescribed by the government again
. These include, for example, 2G regulations that are imposed depending on the Corona hospital traffic light stand.
Supermarkets, pharmacies and other shops and locations that are essential to visit in everyday life are not subject to such restrictions.
Doctors' surgeries also belong to the area of basic care, which must remain accessible to all citizens - this is the widespread assumption.
However, there are already practices that only receive vaccinated, convalescent and tested people.
Is that right?
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Corona: 3G regulation in medical practices is intended to protect risk groups
Those who implement 3G regulation in their doctor's office rely on their house rules. And the protection of vulnerable groups (i.e. corona risk groups such as elderly and immunocompromised people) is also a pro-argument in the room. "The main reason is to protect patients who cannot be vaccinated against corona," quoted the Tagesschau orthopedist Johannes Bauer, who introduced the 3G rule in his practice.
It also said that pregnant women, children and people with impaired immune systems should be protected in this way.
However, the 3G rule in medical practices is not legal: for example, the Bavarian Ministry of Health makes it clear
that it is fundamentally not possible to only allow access to the doctor's practice according to the 3G rule
, informs the Tagesschau.
The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians also takes a clear position against a 3G rule: “Doctors cannot make treatment dependent on compliance with the 3G rule,” it says in writing, as
informed by
tagesschau.de
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Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians recommends certain consultation hours for those who have not been vaccinated
But the Baden-Württemberg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians throws a suggestion into the room, which is likely to piss off some unvaccinated people. On November 11, 2021, the board of the Baden-Württemberg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians sent a circular to its doctors recommending separate consultation hours. As the Fokus further reports,
unvaccinated and untested people should only have a small time window within the framework of the recommendation.
"Time and scope depend on the individual practice spectrum and may be determined by the practice owner, e. B. 3G consultation hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. non 3G consultation hours from 7:00 a.m. to 7:10 a.m. ”, according to the KV Baden-Württemberg.
The circular also states: "As doctors and psychotherapists who are confronted every day with the deleterious (fatal), medical and social consequences of the corona pandemic as such, but especially with the consequences of a corona disease *,
we perceive refusal to vaccinate as cheeky and socially unacceptable
.
Many rightly find it unbearable that these very people in medical practices endanger vulnerable patient groups.
At the latest where you endanger others, corona and vaccination are no longer a private
matter.
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