Courage to face COVID-19

Abstract

The calls for solidarity, social justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence are all, and have been, calls of bioethical values for medical teaching and practice, yesterday, during the AIDS-19 pandemic, and always.

There are few in this field, as mentors or as medical professionals, who have not honored that call. Sometimes it may not seem so, because the noise of the few is not only obnoxious, but suffocating. But we are beginning to see the results of this compliance, not with the Hippocratic Oath, but with the Other, with the neighbor, with those who seek to know how to preserve health and with whom to recover it. Precisely with those who, in confidentiality, place their life and well-being in the hands of science and in the warmth of a humanistic practice.