Relação médico-paciente na assistência em contexto pandêmico: responsabilidades e vulnerabilidades dos sujeitos

Abstract

Despite the roles of strong and unattainable, usually played by doctors, and of fragile and vulnerable by patients in care relationships in the pandemic context of the coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2 and the cause of COVID-19, the susceptibility scenarios of both have passed. to present themselves-, each one with its peculiarity, laying bare the pain and considering the perspective of humanization of the scientific caregivers. From this juncture, this writing aimed to discuss the doctor-patient relationship in care in a pandemic context, assuming the modification - albeit temporary - of its profile, as well as the points of view of the responsibilities and vulnerabilities of its subjects according to theories, (bio)ethical-legal principles and norms. We opted for theoretical-philosophical writing, in the methodological molds of an analytical research. The analysis proved to be favorable to the perception of the possibilities of approximations and distances between doctors and patients during the course of the pandemic, either through face-to-face communication, with the addition of recommendations and protocols to health professionals, such as the Spikes protocol - substantially used in Brazilian health centers – either through telemedicine, as a significant resource in view of social distancing, also in care. Elements such as the fallibility of science and the perception of vulnerability of physicians, capable of feeling pain, fatigue and frustration were considered. It was understood by the possibility of symmetralization of the doctor-patient relationship from the humanization, not only of the assistance, but of the image of the health professional, previously deified, although the expectation and social admiration have been maintained.