A night doctor was beaten up on Friday evening in a city of Vitry-sur-Seine (94). He was going to the bedside of an elderly lady. The 3 men with the hidden faces wanted his briefcase.
He had come to rescue an old lady suffering from arterial hypertension (hypertension). Regent, a night general practitioner (on call) finally left covered with bruises, without having had time to treat his patient. Three men with hidden faces indeed beat him the doctor in intervention, around 11:15 pm this Friday. This news item took place in front of one of the towers on Avenue du Colonel Fabien in Vitry-sur-Seine in Val-de-Marne.
The fourth assault in two years
In the pages of the daily The Parisian, this general practitioner indicated that following his assault he presented bruises on his ribs and shoulders, as well as a tear in his nose. Worse for him perhaps, this is not the first time that the doctor is targeted. “This is the fourth assault I have suffered in two years,” he says. It is not possible to exercise under these conditions, ”he adds.
And very often, the attackers want to steal his briefcase. However, Régent reminded the microphone of BFMTV that from now on “the doctors work with the vital card and that they do not have any more money on them. In the end, the professional admits to having lost all his Universal Illness Coverage (CMU) and State Medical Aid (AME) sheets.
Finally, he also confides that he has already been targeted for no reason. “In Choisy-le-Roi (94) once, my car was grazed because it had“ doctor ”written on it roughly. “
Attacks against doctors on the rise
As a reminder, this violence of which this doctor was victim is not an isolated fact. They keep increasing. This figure was admittedly up in 2013 by 16% compared to the previous year. The doctors’ safety observatory thus identified 925 complaints in 2013 against 439 in 2004. The attacks are mainly verbal, representing 69% of cases in 2013. 11% of violence is physical and 4% of doctors say they have been victims of violence. ‘armed aggression.
In addition, the doctors most concerned by these insecurities are general practitioners, who represent 58% of attacked doctors. Ophthalmologists are the specialists most affected by this violence, followed by psychiatrists, gynecologists and dermatologists. Finally, it is in the North, in Seine Saint-Denis as well as in Paris that we register the greatest number of complaints lodged by doctors.
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