Mine sends via email in my experience but it’s for something I take every day without being ill.
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This is the difference. But what about popping in to the surgery and asking the secretary to do it for you? Or if no secretary then dropping in a note for the doctor?
Thank you. If I can’t get an appointment soonish I will try this.
Met my new doctor this morning, a young man, 30ish. He used my Carte Vitale to access my medical dossier and to make himself my Médécin Traitant. When I got back home, I opened my Ameli account and sure enough, there he is, replacing my former doctor.
All relatively painless. He renewed my ordonnance habituelle and gave me another for my annual blood test which is due. The cost was a cheque for the usual 25 euros.
Feeling relaxed now. It was a worry when I found my old doctor had scarpered without letting anyone know, and not being able to renew my ordonnance habituelle.
All over, and now I can get back to whatever I was doing before all this happened!
Each doctor has a separate waiting room.
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Wow, that looks seriously posh! Glad it’s all worked out for you. Shame about your previous doctor - to do that implies serious mental distress.
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Well done @Bonzocat. We couldn’t get into that one when we tried.
We have a similar fairly new Maison de Santé with infirmières and lots of practitioners. It’s a far cry from the queues and former tiny cabinet of our MT.
Update - I’m glad it’s all worked out for you. What a super place!
What happens to your medical records in this situation, do they transfer automatically to the new doctor?
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When I saw the new doctor for the first time, he asked for my Carte Vitale, inserted it into a reader of some kind, saw my medical dossier online and altered the relevant details to include him as my Medecin Traitant, and at the same time had access, online, to my medical dossier, all my medical records. It wasn’t an automatic process but one which he instigated once he had my Carte Vitale.
Maybe others know more in detail how the process works.
Before my previous doctor, who used the Carte Vitale to access my medical history, I had a doctor for 20 years or so, who kept paper records, the old fashioned kind kept in a filing cabinet in his office, but which when he retired he gave me to give to the new incoming doctor.
Added edit - what the incoming doctor did with the old paper records I know not. Maybe shredded as it seems that my medical history is online, paper records no longer needed.
I’m not sure that records actually are transferred because medical people have access to any of my records that are on line - as I do of course - but not many records are, only the ones that I or some medic has explicitly put there recently. There is no evidence that I can see of the sorts of records my MT has on her computer being anywhere else. Of course they could be online somewhere I can’t look at but an MT can, I wouldn’t be sure about that…
Yes it’s only in the last few years that doctors digitise patients documents and I doubt many have dedicated the resources to doing so with back files. And there is still no completely operation central system apart from what one puts in one’s espace santé, and the very basic info connected to you CV. So I very much doubt that info in a computer in one surgery would automatically transfer to another.
I keep my own records just in case, so always get copies of letters and so on.
Absolutely yes! I think I need a new filing cabinet now 
When we moved here in 2018, our MT took all our previous medical details that we provided to him and it seems he put them online. Whenever we go, everything goes on the computer. I know that the hospital has access to the OH’s records, and can update them so they must be kept centrally.
On the original topic, I was surprised how pleased I was when I saw that one of out local MT practices is expanding.
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Or perhaps regionally, departmentally or by group? If I get imaging in a one of a network of linked imaging places in my department they can access my previous images. However when I went to a different office which is closer, but in a different department, they had no access. And one of my specialist, in another department again, can’t see anything unless I hand her a CD and she uploads it.
And no-one seems to be able to access stuff pre-2015/16/17.
I agree with that. Lately I’ve had scans or whatever at several different imaging centres. Some can see each other’s results but others can’t. The really strange one, for me, is Caen hospital, where correspondance/results seem to go on the hospital online system in some situations but not others and on my espace santé only with one particular specialist.
As I see it old record’s beyond a few years are irrelevant anyway.
You are really only as healthy, or not, as your last check up and if it is something serious your body tells you and you quickly spill the beans to your doctor.
There are many compulsory checks in pkace as we get older and also an annual blood/urine test is pretty good at spotting abnormalities.
Sooner or later sonething is going to finish us and we all hope it will be later.
Coffin dodging is like russian roulette, we all hope the next bullet is destined elsewhere.
Not really. It maybe so for broken bones from falling off bikes, and stomach upsets with clear cause. However my medical history is quite influential in guiding current treatment. History of lung issues for example, even tho’ currently fine, will give doctors pause for thought when I turn up with a minor cough they would otherwise dismiss.
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