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"Everybody lies". Éthique médicale, communication médecin-patient et House M.D. : une approche didactique.

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Medical ethics is based on the Hippocratic Oath, whose principles of respect and benevolence have been integrated and updated in the official texts that govern the rights and duties of the medical community, including the Helsinki Declaration on Bioethics and the Code of Ethics for Medical Practice (Gold et al. 1996). The doctor-patient relationship is at the heart of medical practice and may be associated with ethical issues when announcing a diagnosis, for example; this implies that practitioners must master communication skills in accordance with medical ethics. Kurtz & al. have written the Calgary-Cambridge Referenced Observation Guides with the aim of enabling (future) professionals to master communicational competence in the physician-patient relationship. One of the goals of professional medical English is to help learners master this skill. There are many television series that belong to the FASP médicale. Even if they are only a watered-down reflection of reality, they offer the advantage of presenting scenes rooted in a professional reality. Dr. Gregory House has been described as the unethical doctor par excellence (Wicclair 2008): he shows no respect for his patients by justifying his actions with his famous "everybody lies". Working on House, M.D. can lead students to reflect on good medical practice while improving their communication skills, without the risk of drifting since the medium used remains a work of fiction.