Country doctors, new generation

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Telemedicine aims to fight against medical deserts.

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THIERRY ZOCCOLAN / AFP

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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