This article is from the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°220 dated January/March 2025.
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PATRICE DIOT – Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Tours, former President of the Observatory of the Demography of Health Professions
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In 2023, the number of practicing doctors increased: plus 3,272 practitioners. However, at the same time, territorial inequalities have widened and with them the difficulties of access to care. So, what to do? The opinion of Patrice Diot, former dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Tours, former president of the Observatory of the Demography of Health Professionals.
"The number of doctors in training in France has increased very significantly since the beginning of the 2000s, and the main problem is their distribution", says Patrice Diot.
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