Patient experience in bariatric surgery: protocol of a French narrative inquiry and qualitative analysis.

Introduction: The quality of hospital care, especially surgery, is traditionally assessed using indicators derived from healthcare databases or safety indicators. Given the growing importance of placing the patient at the heart of care evaluation, the use of questionnaires such as the Patient-Reported Experience Measures and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures has become widespread in recent years. However, these tools-addressing factors such as satisfaction, pain management or wait times-only imperfectly reflect the patient's experience, and all such attempts at patient-centred care quality assessment rely on questions or indicators defined in advance by healthcare providers and health authorities.

[The philosophical clinical approach to burnout in caregivers in the light of Covid-19].

The crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the risks of burnout in caregivers and more specifically the question of ethical suffering. A philosophical clinical approach to burnout enables it to be analysed as a form of existential suffering linked to our shared vulnerability, as well as to more socio-organisational failings.

Is laparoscopic live donor hepatectomy justified ethically?

Live donor liver transplant (LDLT) was first reported in the 1990s and quickly raised ethical considerations, mainly related to the risk brought to the donor. The question of donor safety was even more accurate with the occurrence of laparoscopy, a technique which could allegedly increase the risk of severe intraoperative complications. Besides the questions of justice and autonomy, donor safety remains the main ethical debate of LDLT.