Le médecin

We experienced a bit of French healthcare this week.
It seems that all sports clubs here require a medical certificate before registering kids in the club.  Because they are all the same I think it must be some government policy rather than at the club level. For Andy's Judo the instructor told us not to worry too much about it and we could bring it later (I understood that never bringing it would probably be ok).  But Joe has started doing tennis and they said he really did need it.  So, we took him to the doctor and discovered they even have a special form for medical certificates for kid's sports.  (He was completely fine, of course.) 
The process of getting an appointment was incredibly easy.  I just walked into a random doctors office, and explained what I wanted, and although it was clearly neither an emergency nor important they said they would see him no problem and they offered an appointment the next day, or afterwards.  The cost for a consulatation (of any kind) with the doctor is 23 Euros. 
Was so different to trying to get an appointment with a family doctor in Canada where you would never be able to walk off the street and hope to get an appointment (apart from a walk-in clinic, of course).  I can't even seem to get an appointment with my own doctor less that four or five days in advance.