The aftermath of the pandemic in a hospital: covid-19 and death in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

The article explores the mutations in the practices of health professionals in the context of covid-19. It focuses on “the covid area” of a hospital in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, seeking to know the rearrangement of hospital space and routines, and the ways of communicating death. In a short period of time, adjustments in professional practices and attempts at new routines and rituals are observed. In the doctor/patient relationship and in the way of communicating a death, both “exceptional” actions (which violate routines) and attempts to recover care techniques linked to the paradigm of humanized medicine are condensed.

Covid-19; Espacio hospitalario; Practicas profesionales; Muerte