The War Routine.

Under pressure, the war routine of a Brazilian doctor (2014, Foz Publisher, Rio de Janeiro) is Marcio Maranhão’s book, in deposition to the journalist Karla Monteiro, that talks about his routine as a surgeon working in Rio de Janeiro’s hospitals. His reports didn’t gained me less through the striking facts that build the daily life of a doctor that works in the emergency section and more due to Marcio Maranhão’s choice to write in the first person. Inside that choice he reflects about how the system deafen the doctor, the fear of the medical practice face to face to the difficult conditions of the public system, about the contagious suffering, the other’s pain that catches you during your professional time. He talks about questions and ethical decisions that he confronted through the years while working in the public medical system. All of these themes are difficult to be approached and they become challenges when you search a treatment in a personal perspective. The result is a report that approaches us to the desire of keeping alive the question of the medical preparation to the exercise of the professional and its part in our society. It makes us move to propose a formation that can be equate the level of complexity of life and health questions in Brazil. Marcio Maranhão keeps those questions in our nerves; it transmits pain, anger and the impotence that the doctors, patients and relatives are going through in their daily lives while searching for their right to health and life.