Nurses and Doctors Heroes? A Risky Myth of the COVID19 Era.
Nurs Rep
; 10(2): 37-40, 2020 Sep 28.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1027291
ABSTRACT
Recent newspapers reports have named health professionals as "heroes". This is surprising, because in the last few decades, doctors and nurses have been taken into account by mass media only to describe cases of misconduct or of violence. This change was due to the coronavirus pandemic scenario that has produced fear in the population and the need for an alleged "savior". This need for health professionals seen as heroes is also disclosed by the fact that even politicians have abdicated to their role in favor of the healthcare "experts" to whom important decisions on social life during this pandemic have been delegated, even those decisions that fall outside of the specific health field. This commentary is a claim to framing the job of caregivers in its correct role, neither angel nor devil, but allied to the suffering person, that the image of "heroes" risks to overshadow.
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Prognostic study
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English
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Nurs Rep
Year:
2020
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Article
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Nursrep10020006
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