Between Applauses and Loneliness,Heroes/Warriors and Fear: Thoughts of a Medical Professor During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

In this performance autoethnography poetry, I report a poem which aims to question the socially constructed concepts and health care practices in times of COVID-19 pandemic. Through my thoughts, questions, answers, and demarcations embodied in my existence as a medical educator/professor/researcher and former (?) physician, I try to enlarge the views of this COVID-19 pandemic, in a context such as the one we are living in Brazil, between the deaths and the denial of the pandemic, in the search to “save the economy.” By playing with my personal/political stories, inviting the readers to think with me about health care, medical education/research, applauses and loneliness, heroes/warriors and fear, and possibilities embodied in our texts, in our lives.