Regulation of doctors' establishment: demonstrations in several cities, government plan still unclear

"Don't tighten your tourniquet on our freedoms" , "Yes to incitement, no to coercion" , "Freedom, equality, let me decide" , "Remove the tourniquet, liberal medicine is suffocating" , "Garot pipo" ... Mobilizing in the street is not part of the doctors' usual modes of action. However, several thousand of them took up these slogans on Tuesday, April 29, from Paris to Marseille, and from Lille to Lyon, via Brest, Nantes, Bordeaux and Besançon.

At the call of intern, student and junior doctor organizations, supported by all the unions of private doctors, the demonstrators closed ranks against the cross-party bill proposed by the Socialist MP for Mayenne, Guillaume Garot, co-signed by some 250 other MPs from all sides (excluding the National Rally) and whose chances of success seem to have never been stronger.

With one week to go before the resumption of the examination of the text on Tuesday, May 6, whose first article, already adopted by the Assembly, affects the freedom of doctors to establish themselves, by providing for regulation (arrival conditional on departure, in areas deemed sufficiently well-equipped), opposition within the profession is not weakening. Among interns, these young doctors after the sixth year of studies, one in two declared themselves on strike on Tuesday, according to their inter-union (ISNI).

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