[How do you feel after your consent].

We wonder about the patient's perception relating to a request for informed and express free consent. We report interviews conducted with sixteen seniors who responded to a consent request while they were hospitalized in a geriatric department. Those patients had to give their opinion on the quality of the information received, their feeling of freedom and the perception of their consent or not.

[Organisation of work at patients' bedsides, a philosopher's perspective].

Establishing rules regarding the organisation of work with patients means taking into account ethical and moral questions. This joint approach requires the free and engaged cooperation of all those involved. The improvement of the quality of care, far from any standardisation or rationalisation, means keeping a place as a subject for the patient as well as the professional.

[The management of patients with chronic pain].

Managing a patient with chronic pain represents, firstly, a meeting between two people - patient and caregiver - during which a mutual and reciprocal recognition must be built. The links between the meaning given to a pain, always singular, and the resulting suffering, depends on the history, culture, issues involved, circumstances and language possibilities of the person experiencing it.

[End of life, promoting the collegial procedure].

The "Leonetti" law introduced the need for a collegial procedure to approach the decision to limit or stop treatment. Collegiality is not easy in daily professional practice. There are cultural and institutional obstacles, specific to caregivers.