Despite the health authorities' call for a "sacred union", in the face of hospital pressure linked to the tripleCovid-flu-bronchiolitis  epidemic, liberal doctors are again called upon to close their offices this Monday, until on January 8, to demand an increase in the consultation rate and an improvement in their conditions of practice, relays Le Parisien. A first call for a strike by liberal doctors was launched on December 25."The government has unfortunately not deigned to pay attention to us despite this first week of strike", indicates the collective on its site, considering in passing to have been "unfairly lectured" by the Minister of Health, François Braun. "It is with great regret and bitterness that we officially call for a second week of strike by liberal doctors in France, from January 2 to 8, 2023 inclusive", continues the organization. In addition to the continuation of the strike, a demonstration is announced in Paris on Thursday, January 5. An increase in the consultation fee requested The Doctors for Tomorrow collective, created at the end of the summer, signed a coup on December 1 and 2: its slogan of closing medical practices led to a drop in activity of around 30% among general practitioners, according to Health Insurance. About 60% of its members (16,000 practitioners) declared themselves to be on strike last week, the daily reports. READ ALSODoctors Strike: Are They That Badly Paid? The central demand remains the doubling of the price of the basic consultation (from 25 to 50 euros) to be more attractive in the face of city medicine in dire need of staff, crushed by administrative tasks and which no longer attracts young people. . Doctors' organizations are also worried about their freedom of establishment, challenged by proposed medical desert laws, and fear that other caregivers may be allowed to make prescriptions, including advanced practice nurses.