Country doctors, new generation
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Telemedicine aims to fight against medical deserts.
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By: Carlotta Morteo Follow
21 mins
How to attract young doctors to the countryside in order to fight against medical deserts?
In Ardèche, a landlocked department in the south of the Massif Central, a third of the doctors are over 65 years old.
In the next five years, they will retire and cannot find a replacement.
A time bomb that elected officials and local health professionals are trying to defuse.
Thanks to telemedicine and teamwork, medicine in rural areas is reinventing itself.
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Country doctors, new generation
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