“Mr. Spahn, step back!”

The IG Med, “these are physicians of all specialties who are practicing throughout Germany and who have come together to stop the dangerous developments in the health care system of the last few years. This interest group was founded in 2018, as ‘all bodies, professional bodies and associations … have stood idly by’ and ‘watched the deterioration of the general conditions’ of medical ‘activity to the point of intolerability’ (1). The IG Med has so far opposed, among other things, the privatisation and forced digitalisation of the health care system. Now it is going one step further (2).