Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic marked public opinion by the scale and violence of scientific and medical debates. Patients can sometimes say that they have never seen so many doctors in the papers. Everyone has their own opinion and some use social networks. Yet, despite massive publications on the pandemic, doctors don't always seem to know what to do. While some journalists believe that doctors have found the pandemic an opportunity to assert new medical power through the media, others see medicine as far too limited a science. So how can medical power be re-examined by the action of physicians during this pandemic? The article discusses the classic dimensions of power (politics, judgment, action) to highlight other dimensions of medical power: responsibility, dedication, creativity, and exemplarity.