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Why Coercive Measures Won't Help Repopulate 'Deserts'

2022-01-16T16:36:09.218Z


DECRYPTION - Some MPs want to force young doctors to settle in territories they have not chosen. But such constraints would be counterproductive.


Every year, pressed by their constituents, deputies believe they have the miracle cure for the problem of medical deserts, competing with bills to limit the freedom of installation of doctors.

Latest in a long series, a text by the PS deputy for Mayenne Guillaume Garot, proposes to oblige young doctors to go to a medical desert during their last year of internship, then for the two years following obtaining of their degree.

To this measure is added a selective agreement, to limit new installations in areas already well supplied with doctors and direct them towards under-dense areas.

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But, after ten years of study, the young practitioners are reluctant to settle in these medical deserts which are very often deserts "just plain", whereas they are just beginning to found a family, with a spouse and children who will find neither work, nor place in nursery, nor school.

Choosing coercion is pushing our future doctors…

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Source: lefigaro

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