Humiliated after an interview with the Vendée College of Physicians, a Romanian who was to settle in this medical desert returned to her country, before settling down.
When the professional insufficiency of a practitioner shakes the web. In Vendée, in the heart of the Marais poitevin, the village of Damvix, 774 inhabitants, was preparing to receive a woman doctor of Romanian origin, says the newspaper West France. Located in the middle of the medical desert, the town has been deprived of a general practitioner since December. The arrival of a new health professional was therefore eagerly awaited. This turned to the cauchermar for the practitioner from the East.
An idyllic start
In February, the mayor, Jean-Claude Richard, himself went to Romania to meet this 40-year-old emergency physician and offer her to settle in his town. Once the agreement was made, 50,000 euros were invested in the cabinet that was to host it. The patients were to be seen as early as July.
“When she arrived at the beginning of June, our future doctor was trained in the CPAM software”, explains Jean-Claude Richard to the regional daily. The woman demonstrated a “fairly good command” of the French language. She was ready for her appointment with the Order of Physicians on June 25.
The impression of having been “humiliated”
However, she came out “collapsed”, according to the mayor’s story. The practitioner would not have convinced the ten doctors who interviewed her and deemed her “insufficient medico-administrative knowledge”. The Order asked him to do training with a general practitioner for a month. “We argued, we said it was not a refusal. She left for Romania ”, he explained, adding that“ she had no training on the French organization ”.
For the municipality, it is a blow of the club. “How many more months are we going to go without a GP? “, Jean-Claude Richard is alarmed. The argument of the higher medical authority does not convince the mayor. “Is the Order protecting the backyard of salaried medicine?” “. Ditto on the side of the ARS (regional health agency), which wonders about “the reasons for this destabilization”.
This story comes when a Romanian doctor practicing in a town in Morbihan for fifteen months was suspended by the Order in early July, on the grounds that “the general level of his knowledge was finally deemed insufficient”.
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