According to the results of the doctors’ security observatory, the rate of verbal attacks, which represent 70 % of the reported incidents, has been at the highest in ten years.
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After a downward trend in 2019 and 2020, the number of assaults of doctors starts upwards, according to the results of The observatory of doctors safety for the year 2021 , Revealed by the National Council of the Order, Tuesday, July 26. With 1,009 incident declarations, against 955 in 2020, an increase of 5.6 %, 2021 is thus the fourth most violent year for doctors since the launch of the observatory in 2003.
Verbal aggressions represent 70 % of reported incidents, the highest rate since 2011. They too are up, order by counting 710 in 2021 against 637 in 2020. The complainants report insults, threats or, In some cases, telephone or internet harassment. Physical assaults represent 9 % of the reported cases. In 6 % of them, voluntary assaults and injuries were brought down. Five cases implied a sequestration of the practitioner. In addition, 10 % of the declarations concern flights or attempted flights and 8 % of acts of vandalism.
pandemic obliges, 59 incidents originally have the health crisis: 35 concern a refusal to comply with health rules such as wearing the mask. Vaccination has also been generated in tensions: 24 are linked to patients opposed to it.
Once again, general practitioners are particularly affected since they represent 61 % of cases (while they constitute 43 % of the population of practitioners). However, there is an increase in the number of incidents concerning specialists: 55 cardiologists have reported having suffered violence, against 21 in 2020, a figure which therefore more than doubled in one year. They are the most affected specialists with ophthalmologists and psychiatrists, namely “practitioners whose meetings are most difficult to have”, comments the D r
é> Jean-Jacques Avrane, President of the Departmental of the Order of Doctors of Paris, at a press conference Tuesday morning. Next come occupational medicine, dermatologists and gynecologists.
The violence identified mainly concern exercise in the city center (51 %). However, incidents in the suburbs are increasing this year, with 22 % of the physical and verbal assault counted, against 16 % the previous year. In rural areas, the phenomenon remains stable, at 21 %. As in 2020, the Hauts-de-France region is the one that counts the greatest number of declared attacks (172 against 166 the previous year). The Nord department alone concentrates 139. follow the Ile-de-France (135), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (119) and Provence-Côte-d’Azur regions (113).
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