It’s a phenomenon that affects us all when we look for an appointment with a specialist. The waiting time. It’s endless. And it even tends to expand according to a recent study carried out among 2,143 practitioners in the Grand-Est by the URPS. Its president is our guest this Monday.
Finding an appointment, when you are a new patient in Lorraine, is a feat when you are looking for a cardiologist, an ophthalmologist or a dermatologist.
This is the result of a study carried out by the Regional Union of Liberal Health Professionals of the Grand Est with 2,143 practitioners in our region. So why do we wait at least several months. ” The situation gradually got out of hand with the retirement of half of the doctors. In fact, with the numerus clausus which had gone down really very very low, which has now gone back up, we find ourselves in a situation where the retirement of a large part of doctors and at the same time the demographics which are rising and the increasing age of patients has considerably complicated the situation ” analyzes the president of the URPS Claude Bronère.
And is it more difficult to find an appointment in rural areas, rather than in big cities? It’s a received idea, assures our guest. ” It’s a little difficult to understand why. So, one of the explanations is that patients move around and even patients from the countryside tend to go and make an appointment in town because they probably think things are better. But it’s really something that is a little difficult to understand and I want to say that the closer the population and its doctors are, which is the case in a small territory, the more sensitive they are. And then perhaps also in the countryside where there are fewer doctors, patients slow down a little more to go see the specialist ” says Claude Bronner.
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