A change of life. Since completing her studies ten years ago, Céline Dausques has wanted to practice her profession as a general practitioner in Canada. Finally she decides to stay in France with her husband and enters the Vignoble medical practice in Fleix in the Dordogne. But today the working conditions are too difficult, she says and leaves Head toward Montreal, Quebec.

“I sacrificed ten years of my life, I invested a lot to help my patients, but I no longer project myself into my work,” explains the family doctor. In her opinion, it was already the right time to leave “make bad medicine” Because She could no longer endure the working conditions. Overload from appointments, administrative overload, Dr. Dausques worked at least 12 hour days for days until he could no longer eat with his three children.

The shortage of doctors is getting worse

restrictions that have “Had an impact on his health”. But his departure goes wrong in a department that lacks doctors
. “It’s not a leak and I’m not being gifted a golden bridge. I don’t go on vacation, I go to work”she answers these who accuse him of aggravating the medical desert situation.

At this announcement, it was two-thirds There are 1700 patients They would have understood, she assures them, even if the thought of having to find another family doctor scares them. More than 1000 of them had named her as a referring doctor.

Better conditions in Canada?

His cabinet mates have asked him for a six-month extension to ensure a transition. Despite negotiations with local elected officials, for now no replacement found. But at the end of the year, Céline will therefore cross the Atlantic.

“In Canada it’s a different organization, there’s a lot of teamwork and the schedules are more structured”entrust to him who also hopes “More Recognition” And “rediscovered his passion for medicine”. And if he ends up not liking Canada, Dr. Dausques does not rule out a return to Périgord.