“9 a.m.
and already three people have not come to consultation without warning
,” laments a general practitioner on Twitter.
“
Rarely do I call on the phone to ask the patient where he is.
Answer: “I had forgotten that there was a private sale on the internet that I did not want to miss”
, reports another.
On social networks doctors testify, between exasperation and incomprehension, of the multiplication of "rabbits", these appointments not honored.
A scourge, because if the hospital and the emergencies are embolized, it is also because the French cannot make appointments in town.
All doctors (90% to 97%) are confronted with it, according to the barometer "Health Book" carried out by Odoxa for the National Mutual Hospital (MNH).
Thus, 1 out of 6 French people and 1 out of 3 young people admit to having already posed a question mark to their doctor.
And this defection is not always explained by a last-minute imponderable but, in 48% of cases, quite simply because the…
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