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Aziliz Le Corre: "Is it ethical to sort out patients in the context of a health crisis?"

2022-01-10T15:03:48.716Z


ANALYSIS - If the choice of patients to be treated as a priority is unfortunately a reality in a context of a pandemic, we must ensure that the principle of equality which governs our care system is protected, explains the journalist to FigaroVox and to the pages Debates of Figaro.


On January 1, 2022, professor emeritus at CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière, André Grimaldi, wondered: "

Shouldn't a person claiming the free choice not to be vaccinated? resuscitate?

His words gave rise to important debates between caregivers.

This questioning shocks a large part of the opinion because it makes a small part of the French a category apart from the rest of the population.

These 10% of unvaccinated adults are nevertheless within their rights.

Indeed, the Kouchner law of 2002 provides that “

no medical act or treatment can be performed without the free and informed consent of the person and this consent can be withdrawn at any time

 ”.

In opposition to this moral positioning, which would differentiate good from evil, right from unfair or even the acceptable from the unacceptable, many caregivers have claimed an ethical approach to their profession, aiming to ...

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Source: lefigaro

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