{"id":46969,"date":"2019-09-06T05:02:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/sexo\/do-you-need-an-emergency-doctor\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:32:41","slug":"do-you-need-an-emergency-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/en\/intimate-health\/do-you-need-an-emergency-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you need an emergency doctor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>When hospitals are overcrowded, general practitioners have overcrowded waiting rooms, and firefighters are all over the city, the solution is to have an emergency doctor come to your bedside.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-396 size-full\" title=\"medecin-urgence-de-garde-sos-tel-medecin-sante-intime-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/medecin-urgence-de-garde-sos-tel-medecin-sante-intime-1.jpg\" alt=\"medecin-urgence-de-garde-sos-tel-medecin-sante-intime-1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are 800 EMT vacancies in<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/tags\/france\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">French<\/a><\/strong>While there are 637 emergency services in the country, of which 520 are public, this represents<a href=\"https:\/\/www.senat.fr\/rap\/r16-685\/r16-6855.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>more than one vacancy per site<\/b><\/span><\/a>In order to cope with these shortages, hospitals are therefore forced to rely on temporary doctors, who also act as on-call doctors for patients in need.<b>l\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/en\/lintelligence-artificielle-et-lapprentissage-automatique-changent-notre-approche-de-la-medecine-et-lavenir-des-soins-de-sante\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Artificial intelligence is not taking over healthcare professionals.<\/span><\/a><\/b><b>,<\/b>We still need the human to solve all our problems.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><b>How does an emergency call work?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>In fact, most calls come to the same place, and liberal doctors are based in 15 centres (usually one per department) alongside emergency doctors.<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.statista.com\/themes\/3462\/les-urgences-medicales-en-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Emergency numbers<\/b><\/span><\/a>For example, in 2017, there were no less than 18.98 million referrals to general emergency departments or 2.5 million referrals to pediatric emergency departments.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of a life-threatening emergency, he transfers the calls to a hospital doctor, otherwise a liberal doctor known as a \u00ab\u00a0regulator\u00a0\u00bb who provides advice, a prescription possibly faxed to the pharmacy of care or a referral to a home visit.<strong>SOS as a doctor<\/strong>, you skip all those steps.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><b>A number to call 24\/7.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>To be able to reach a<a href=\"https:\/\/sos-tel-medecin.fr\/\"><strong>A doctor in an emergency.<\/strong><\/a>This is especially true when it comes to a loved one, a child whose health concerns make it unthinkable to wait until the next day or the beginning of the week for a consultation. At this point, it is possible to reach a doctor on call wherever you are.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-398 size-full\" title=\"medecin-urgence-de-garde-sos-tel-medecin-sante-intime-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/medecin-urgence-de-garde-sos-tel-medecin-sante-intime-3.jpg\" alt=\"medecin-urgence-de-garde-sos-tel-medecin-sante-intime-3\" width=\"250\" height=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>L\u2019<strong>The goal is twofold.<\/strong>In fact, in France, in 70% of departments, you have to dial 15 to reach a doctor outside consultation hours, but in Lorraine it is 0820332020, in France-Comt\u00e9 it is 3966.<b>118 418, available 7 days a week and 24 hours a day<\/b>All you have to do is call and say \u00ab\u00a0SOS\u00a0\u00bb to find an answer to your need.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><b>A directory on the Internet<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>If you prefer to search directly for a doctor\u2019s address and number yourself, it\u2019s also very simple. You log in directly to the SOS Tel Medecin website, select the city or region of your choice and click on it. You\u2019ll see all the names of available nurses. Finally, you just have to select the healthcare professional of your choice.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, your needs will vary according to your state of health, the pathologies you suffer from, and the ailments that afflict you, so various specialists work alongside experienced general practitioners \u2013 physiotherapists, paediatricians, and many others \u2013 so that you will be cared for by the right person.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><b>Getting more time when you\u2019re sick<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Being able to reach an emergency doctor at any time of the day is really an added comfort when taking care. You get a diagnosis quickly, you get a solution quickly, you avoid waiting times in a waiting room, you don\u2019t move, \u2026 several good points that we enjoy joyfully when we are sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/medecin-urgence-de-garde-sos-tel-medecin-sante-intime-2.jpg\" alt=\"medecin-urgence-de-garde-sos-tel-medecin-sante-intime-2\" width=\"834\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The average duration of a consultation with a general practitioner is 18 minutes, while female practitioners report consultations that are 1 minute 30 minutes longer than their colleagues\u2026 Visits, including travel, last about 37 minutes, and doctors spend about 7 hours a week, giving them more time to examine you thoroughly.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When hospitals are overcrowded, general practitioners have overcrowded waiting rooms, and firefighters are all over the city, the solution is to have an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":21299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14845],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-intimate-health"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":46969,"fr":21593,"it":46971,"nl":46973,"pt":46975,"es":46977,"de":46979},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/medecin-urgence-de-garde-sos-tel-medecin-sante-intime-4.jpg","pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46982,"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46969\/revisions\/46982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xlovecam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}