Words from yesterday and today's pandemic: what medicine after COVID ? 6

Étienne Lemarié, Yves Tremblay, Maman Joyce Dogba, Violaine Lemay.
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic is a new phenomenon, unknown to our modern society, which has features in common with the plagues of history. We will try to answer two questions. Is the Covid pandemic a crisis? How will the pandemic change our approach to health? The pandemic has generated a crisis, that is to say an event endowed with a power of shock that goes beyond its integration into a causal series, an event with health, political, economic, and cultural consequences. To respond to this, our health establishments, our faculties, and all health players will have to work together to review their practices. Ethical choices will be necessary to find equitable solutions. These choices and actions have in common that they are conceived in an interdisciplinary reflection. We address some aspects: science and research, information and communication, ethics, health governance, patient participation.
January 2022
La revue du praticien n° Tome 71 / n° 3 PDF