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General practitioners, denouncing inflation and the increase in charges weighing on their profession, are threatening to increase their consultation fees and leave the conventional system if the price does not change.
Europe 1 went to meet one of them.
Doctors threaten to desert the system to be better paid.
According to them, consultation is not sufficiently valued while negotiations with the government are underway.
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Adrien Kombo, doctor in Finistère, is not far from throwing in the towel.
He threatens to leave the conventional system if the price of the consultation does not increase.
“The act must be valued so that we perhaps do fewer acts but can delegate certain things and be better paid,” explains the doctor at the microphone of Europe 1.
Better paid, that is to say 30 euros instead of the 26.50 euros currently in place.
The idea is not to enrich oneself personally but to be able to invest to relieve medicine that is running out of steam.
"We see it in the hospital with all the disasters that follow one another in the emergency room. We also see it in the liberal system. Everyone is caught in the same deadly logic of being paid less and less in relation to the cost of life", delivers Adrien Kombo.
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According to the practitioner, the current cost of the consultation does not allow doctors to hire manpower: "We are asked to hire assistants but at the price of the consultation, it is almost suicide economical. So if we can adapt our fees, we will be able to hire more, expand the offices, have equipment to do so and make young people also want to set up shop.”
To date, nearly 5,000 general practitioners in France have signed this famous letter of intent.