February 6, 2017.
Some doctors do not hesitate to clearly display their refusal to take care of patients benefiting from State Medical Aid (AME) or universal health coverage (CMU). A behavior denounced by the Order of Physicians.
Refusal to treat patients benefiting from AME or CMU
Some doctors would refuse to treat poor patients. In any case, this was denounced at the beginning of January by three associations: The Federation of Solidarity Actors, the Interassociative Collective on Health and Doctors of the World. In order to put an end to these ” illegal and discriminatory practices of refusal of care », They had seized the Defender of the rights, Jacques Toubon.
The associations specifically pointed to twelve doctors and dentists. Next to their names, on Doctolib, a website for making medical appointments on the Internet, was displayed: “ no CMU accepted “. This mention would be strictly illegal insofar as the law obliges doctors to treat patients benefiting from AME or CMU, and to apply the agreed rates to them, without excess fees.
Unacceptable behavior according to the medical order
” Such behavior is absolutely unacceptable, both ethically and morally. “, Said Thursday, February 2, the Order of Physicians, in a press release. The Order has also announced that it will “ seize the disciplinary chambers of complaints against these doctors “. An opinion encouraged by the Defender of Rights on his website which firmly denounces the ” refusal of illegal care to which beneficiaries of CMU-C, Complementary Health Assistance (ACS) and AME are exposed “.
For his part, Jean-Paul Ortiz, the boss of the French medical unions, condemned these refusals but sought to explain them: ” Many make an appointment with their doctor and do not come “, He estimated at the microphone of Europe 1.” These are disadvantaged populations who do not have these attitudes of good organization in their daily life or who do not have these reflexes. “
Marine Rondot
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