• Marie-Laure Clinet, Benoît Vaysse, Maxime Gignon, Olivier Jarde, and Cécile Manaouil.
• CHU d'Amiens, service de médecine légale et sociale, 80000 Amiens, France.
• Presse Med. 2015 Nov 1; 44 (11): e321-9.

IntroductionThe main objective of this study was to estimate prevalence on the liberal general practitioners. The secondary objectives are to identify the possible brakes with the declaration in the monitoring observatory for security of the doctors as well as to determine if the feminization of the profession was associated with the situations violence.MethodsA questionnaire in 5 parts was submitted by telephone to 146 drawn lots liberal general practitioners. It approached the undergone physical and verbal attacks, the infringements on the properties arisen during their career, and the proven feeling of insecurity.ResultsThe rate of participation was 63% (93/146). In all 171 incidents were reported among which 96 physical and verbal attacks (56%), and 75 infringements on the properties (44%) without difference according to the sex. The main motive for the attacks was the refusal of prescription (44%). Practically, no concerned doctor made declaration for the monitoring observatory for the security of the doctors, for lack of interest for 5 of them or the ignorance of its existence for 10 on 32 practitioners having undergone an aggression after the creation of the monitoring observatory.ConclusionWe observed an under-reporting of the attacks or of the infringements on the properties by the doctors victims. Our study did not highlight difference between men and women.Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

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