“What is our risk of tipping the table when public authorities are no longer able to provide care? »

2024-08-09 06:00:07

According to successive opinion polls (see, for example, the Ipsos survey, “What do the French care about?”,July).

Everyone knows, records, and experiences flaws every day. According to the Ministry of Health, 87% of the territory is considered a medical desert, with one third of the population lacking access to adequate medical services. Emergencies suffer, crash, shut down, or resolve. Access to a specialist or specialist center may take several months if it is still accepting new patients.

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This is the case, for example, with pain centres, medical psychology centers or hospice teams, where only half of the patients in need have access to these services, even if they suffer from a serious illness, sometimes at a very serious stage (Court. Auditor, June 2023). Many times, accessing medical care is an online issue. “Do you know a good specialist? » “Can you talk about me? ” » “Does anyone in your family know anyone? ” » Social capital thus becomes the best health insurance, which creates strong medical insecurity in the country.

Caring is a commitment

This reality is a deep driver of anger and one of the primary causes of feelings of being demoted. Not being able to access treatment or get a parent or child into treatment can create tremendous and legitimate resentment. Sometimes violence against caregivers is a consequence. What risk do we run by overturning the table when public authorities are no longer able to deliver care? Voting in recent weeks reflects this reality.

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Paramedics, we are not here by accident. We are here because what matters is the people. Nurses, paramedics, psychologists, pharmacists or doctors from all disciplines, we welcome everyone seeking help. We support people’s diversity every day. For the people we treat, who are not left or right, French or foreign, with or without documents, they are just ordinary people and our mission is to help them heal or live with their illness and sometimes provide them with support.

In this way, care is a political commitment in the most basic sense, our commitment to care for everyone without distinction and with equal attention, because the relationship of care is a common good. Despite our society’s emphasis on power, control, and power, we, as caregivers, still listen to pain, stay with suffering, and sometimes long for death, and try to understand, alleviate, and comfort. Yet our public health service is bloodless, even abusive, to the people it receives and those who work there. We observe with concern every day the fragility of our health systems and their increasing inability to meet the needs of all.

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