Family's medicine is threatened dramatically, if the present tendency to the shortage is not reversed, declared Friday before the press Hansüeli Späth, president of the Swiss Society of general medicine (SSGM).
For the first time, the five organizations of physicians of first recourse call some at a national demonstration to say that the things cannot continue thus.
An unusual gait
What at first sight can appear completely unusual is the consequence logical of a dissatisfaction that made grow only with the years. But also of an awareness on behalf of the physicians, he/it has underlined.
The decisions of the federal Council of last November had a role release. Pascal Couchepin had presented different measures supposed to save at least 86 millions of francs per year, of which close to the two third thanks to the decrease of the laboratory tariffs, a measure that touches the general practitioners who do some analyses in their cabinet above all.
Profession threatened
Considering the 60 to 80 weekly working hours, of the work of night and the service of emergency, the profession lost its appeal. A necessary improvement of the work conditions first passes by a reduction of the administrative load.
The insurers are pointed of the finger for the pressure that they exercise on the physicians, discerned like "agitators of costs", raised François Héritier, of the College of medicine of first help (CMPR).
Underprivileged by 
TARMED
The bad mood of the general practitioners is also bound to financial questions: they estimate that the new tariff medical Tarmed disfavors them in relation to the peak medicines.
To this title, the director of the federal office of the public health (SFOPH), Thomas Zeltner, admits in an interview published Friday in the daily bernois "Der Bund" that of the corrections don't have can be made.
Better formation
The physicians want to have a better formation also. As the peak medicine, the medicine of first help must be able to develop itself/themselves without economic restrictions, raised Jacques of Haller, president of the Federation of the Swiss physicians (
FMH). "It is not for us about hanging us to privileges of the past, but to speak of the future of the system of health and his/her/its quality", he/it has added.
With the support of more than 300'000 patients, the practitioners are going to take down Saturday in the street in Bern in order to claim better conditions for the formation and the exercise of their profession.