[Referral of vulnerable patients: new professional strategies]

Nowadays hospitals are facing their responsibilities with necessitous patients care, in terms of social protection issues, adequate practice behaviours and professional challenges. The humanitarian aid new wave and innovative social interventions partially explain the success of some militant professionals. An historical approach ambulatory care facilities for deprived people and biographical interviews of health and social professionals show three logics: humanistic motivation, ethical responsibility and media-political charism. In spite of differences in careers promotion, field actors are volunteers to develop together new socially oriented strategies.