From confinement to the “sorting” of patients, from the end of life to freedom from vaccination, ethical dilemmas have followed one another relentlessly throughout this year of health crisis.
Professor of medical ethics at the University of Paris-Saclay, Emmanuel Hirsch takes stock of the arbitrations, but also the ethical renouncements that marked this period.
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LE FIGARO.
- Sorting of patients in intensive care, patients at the end of their life deprived of visits, abandoned funeral rites… Have we lost a part of humanity during this pandemic?
Emmanuel HIRSCH.
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All those who have lived, since the beginning of the crisis, these moments of fight against death, testify to a feeling of failure, sometimes of guilt, because too often our values of humanity have been flouted.
How can we admit that arbitrary administrative procedures, taken in an emergency, could have led to the destruction of what is essential to us?
People in nursing homes or in hospital services have died alone, without benefiting from support
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