This testimony / reflection into two parts should be reimbursed by the social security system, which has everything to gain. The daily life of a suburban doctor, comparable to that of a doctor very rural areas like mine, is made vividly, the author indulging its changing moods during consultations without putting gloves. We meet the emotion, the grotesque, nervousness, compassion (I do not like the word ... I would say the empathie..laquelle already healed). The dilapidated state of the public health system, desired by our pitiful politicians shamelessly converted to any ultraliberal dogmas, is everywhere visible. Sometimes deleterious power of pharmaceutical companies is well known to any reader of Prescrire and the author does not beat around the bush: absence of real therapeutic innovation, unrestrained development of me-too "new" molecules repayable high price for a lack of rendering service improvement, collusion (conscious or not) of former AFSSAPS (and the book was written before the "scandal" benfluorex "...)
There is in this testimony the acuity of a deep humanistic, courageous, not disillusioned, and without any cynicism.