Nina Droff 11:13 a.m., January 20, 2023
After the adoption of a bill on nurses in advanced practice (IPA) by the National Assembly, doctors are stepping up.
The measure must extend the prescription of drugs to "expert nurses" in order to fight against medical deserts.
A risk for the reliability of diagnoses, warns Jérôme Marty, president of the French Union for Free Medicine.
The deputies adopted this Thursday an unprecedented bill on nurses in advanced practice (IPA).
With this text, patients will be able to go directly to advanced practice nurses.
The latter can therefore prescribe treatments - a parade against medical deserts.
A novelty that doctors widely disapprove of.
It would even be dangerous, believes Jérôme Marty, president of the French Union for Free Medicine.
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“We have medical students who have training that lasts ten years and who cannot prescribe before seven and a half years in liberal practice”, declares Jérôme Marty to Europe 1. “And we have nurses who, after three years of nursing training and three years of practice nurses are trained over two years with four months of courses and six months of internship. And in the law, it is said that they will go officiate in areas where doctors are not available. And that is not possible."
The need for a differential diagnosis
Jérôme Marty warns of the risks of diagnoses after the adoption of the bill by the National Assembly: "When I have someone who comes with abdominal pain, it can certainly be digestive problems, but it can be vascular problems. It could be heart problems and it's my training as a doctor that allows me to have a differential diagnosis. It's not a few months of training and everything that allows you to have a differential diagnosis. "