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El médico frente a la COVID-19: lecciones de una pandemia
Apart from its enormous health and economic impact, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way of practicing medicine and medical education. It is likely that this effect may accelerate the transformation that both activities are experiencing. The present article, written at the peak of the crisis, s...
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Elsevier España, S.L.U.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7301086/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.edumed.2020.06.002 |
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author | Sacristán, José Antonio Millán, Jesús |
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description | Apart from its enormous health and economic impact, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way of practicing medicine and medical education. It is likely that this effect may accelerate the transformation that both activities are experiencing. The present article, written at the peak of the crisis, sets out some thoughts on four topics: 1) the publication of false and sensationalist news; 2) the risks of taking medical decisions not based on the evidence; 3) the bioethical implications when there are sufficient resources available for everybody and; 4) the possible effects of the crisis on the teaching of medicine. This crisis should enable doctors, teachers and, students of medicine to draw conclusions and be better prepared for the future. Firstly, it is essential to maintain critical thinking that may protect against the âinfodemicâ. Furthermore, the scientific and ethical standards learned in the faculty, should not be forgotten. Lastly, it should be remembered that, in a devastating pandemic like the current one, apart from scientific medicine, which is practised with the brain, the other medicine that is practiced with the heart must also be practised. |
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spelling | pubmed-73010862020-06-18 El médico frente a la COVID-19: lecciones de una pandemia Sacristán, José Antonio Millán, Jesús Educacio´n Me´dica Article Apart from its enormous health and economic impact, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way of practicing medicine and medical education. It is likely that this effect may accelerate the transformation that both activities are experiencing. The present article, written at the peak of the crisis, sets out some thoughts on four topics: 1) the publication of false and sensationalist news; 2) the risks of taking medical decisions not based on the evidence; 3) the bioethical implications when there are sufficient resources available for everybody and; 4) the possible effects of the crisis on the teaching of medicine. This crisis should enable doctors, teachers and, students of medicine to draw conclusions and be better prepared for the future. Firstly, it is essential to maintain critical thinking that may protect against the âinfodemicâ. Furthermore, the scientific and ethical standards learned in the faculty, should not be forgotten. Lastly, it should be remembered that, in a devastating pandemic like the current one, apart from scientific medicine, which is practised with the brain, the other medicine that is practiced with the heart must also be practised. Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2020 2020-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7301086/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.edumed.2020.06.002 Text en © 2020 Elsevier España, S.L.U. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Sacristán, José Antonio Millán, Jesús El médico frente a la COVID-19: lecciones de una pandemia |
title | El médico frente a la COVID-19: lecciones de una pandemia |
title_full | El médico frente a la COVID-19: lecciones de una pandemia |
title_fullStr | El médico frente a la COVID-19: lecciones de una pandemia |
title_full_unstemmed | El médico frente a la COVID-19: lecciones de una pandemia |
title_short | El médico frente a la COVID-19: lecciones de una pandemia |
title_sort | el mã©dico frente a la covid-19: lecciones de una pandemia |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7301086/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.edumed.2020.06.002 |
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