MEDICINE-A THIN BORDER BETWEEN FICTION AND REAL LIFE
MEDICINE-A THIN BORDER BETWEEN FICTION AND REAL LIFE

Summary/Abstract: For Andre Soubiran, medicine was more than a choice of vocation, it was an assumed duty. It is a task assumed from morality and has two sides: the scientific one (which we can see in Dr. Soubiran translated prestigious activity) and the social one (assumed by the doctor through the literature he brought as a contribution to the French cultural fund). If doctor Soubiran tried to fight the physical pathology, the writer Soubiran carried this offensive on paper, through his narratives. The beginning of the last century brought Nietzsche's philosophy: God is dead! In the new social, political and cultural context, to which are added the sufferings brought by two conflagrations and economic crises, the doctors had to face in times of hardship a new enemy: themselves, their conscience. Soubiran is one of those "people in white" who understood his purpose; by active fighters with diseases but also by opinion formers. The task assumed by the French doctor is a rather ethical one, to unabashedly expose the inner struggles to which those who should heal fall victim. The beginning of the last century and especially the period of calm after the end of the Second World War are the proof of this new duty that the servants of Hippocrates assumed. Corruption, careerism and the grotesque do not bypass anyone, and therefore neither do doctors. Identifying these strengths and revealing the mechanisms of consciousness are the first steps that Soubiran through his novels takes on the path to normalcy and healing of his guild. The fragility of the human being is doubled by an immeasurable power when he has a high goal and the doctors are among those called.

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