consultations with retired doctors

The “Odon Vallet medical specialty center” aims to fight against medical deserts. It will open in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in January 2025. Its originality is that consultations will be carried out by retired doctors.

This may be one of the answers to the shortage of doctors. In Paris, a health center is to open to support patients who have difficulty finding a practitioner. The specificity of center is to operate with retired hospital specialists.

The future “Odon Vallet medical specialty center” we are counting on the large pool of hospital and university hospital doctors reached by the age limit, but who seek to pursue a medical activity, indicates Jeremy Renard, one of the leaders of the project with a duo of doctors, the liver specialist , Yvon Calmus and Doctor Dipak Mandjee.

“We want to offer access to high-level specialists, who will be able to provide second or third recourse assistance on complex cases” in a large number of disciplines, he specifies. Retired doctors will choose the volume of activity they want to have, and will have employee status which will avoid administrative complications.

A few months after its opening, the center has recruited around twenty practitioners, but is still seeking to expand its team, to reach the threshold of 70 to 80 practitioners. It will be located in premises of 277 square meters in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.

The Paris town hall and the Ile-de-France region participated in the initial investment of the center, around 1 million euros, but the largest envelope came from the Vallet foundation, whose name the health center will bear .

Created by the historian of religions Odon Vallet and his brother Jean-Daniel, heirs to an important legacy from their father, the foundation is known for the scholarships it offers to underprivileged young people.

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