The health professional and the human’s finition: denial of death in the daily life of hospital’s assistance professional

Abstract

This article is a reflexive invitation on the professional pratical of health professionals when it concerns about the death on the daily institution and in their own academic formation. The analysis is related, basically, to that they deal with terminal patients. As it is showed, the lack of preparation of the health teams, and in special of the doctors in the treatment of the phenomenon of human finitude, is consequent of the deficit formation in what this relates to the medical-patient envolvement, added to a historical social process to relegate the death to an almost occult plan in the contemporary world. The reflection proposal in this study is to rethink these questions, adding in them more human values, however of clarified form, bringing the conscience of the finitude of the life human for the relation between the patient, the professional, the treatment and the illness that is lived deeply, aiming at to become worthy and full the period of life that the patient will enjoy until its extinguishing, minimizing the familiar impact of the death on its and professional ones that attend it.

Key words – Death. Human finitude. Professional practicals. Humanism.