State ethics at war with carers?
In France, the Ethics Committee demands blind obedience from carers. In this op-ed, the Syndicat Liberté Santé defends humane medicine against robot medicine.
Is it ethical to oblige health professionals – and related staff – to be vaccinated against Covid‑19, on pain of being suspended from their duties and condemned to economic and social death by the law of 5 August 2021?
It took the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) ten months to respond to the referral from the former French Minister of Health, François Braun. In a 54-page report, the CCNE gives its opinion on the ethical aspect of the vaccinations imposed on health professionals in GENERAL, without limiting itself to the one that was so heavily criticised and yet the only one covered by the law of 5 August: vaccination against Covid‑19.
And that is where the problem lies from the outset…
Read the rest of this op-ed on https://tribuneccne144‑oct2023.pjsls.org/
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