[The general practitioner's real-life experience of screening]

Screening definitely plays a major part in a general practitioner's life as he very often has to attend to patients whose wish is to remain in good health. Yet he is not always eager to take an active part in the mass screening campaigns launched. That may be due to a number of reasons: he may confuse the diagnosis approach and the screening one, be unaware of the requirements of public health, or may find it difficult to add another objective to the office call. Those obstacles may be overcome provided the specificities of the general practitioner's are taken into account and an effort at information and training is made. The success of screening campaigns depends on it.