[The post-covid era: a call on the resilience of physicians, patients and community]

Abstract

The coronacrisis was a serious threat for health care and society. By its complexity and deep uncertainty the pandemic showed that patients, physicians and health care need more resilience and flexibility to manage similar future stressors. Moreover, the pandemic uncovered growing disparities in health among citizens, the close links between health care and other societal domains and the fact that we still have only limited power to manage complex new challenges for our global health. We have to adopt another way of managing health care and society to get grip on similar complex medical problems, which we will probably have to face in the future as well. Physicians cannot manage these by themselves. Governments also have to act to diminish social inequality, and create incentives for interdisciplinary collaboration, which together may make citizens and professionals experience coherent and resilient health care management.