Many general practitioners across Europe are being forced to take on more and more patients from colleagues who have retired or quit the profession. Meanwhile, these clinicians are not been replaced.
Dr Jean-Marcel Mourgues, the Vice-President of the French Medical Association, told Euronews that stretching doctors too thin has dire consequences:”‘It means giving up and losing quality of care, and treating patients later”.
Are patients at risk?
Over one in every ten residents in both France and
