text: The need for gentle medicine in a post Covid 19 world As it has historically been the case with many pandemics the Covid 19 experience will induce many philosophers to reconsider the value of medical practice This should be a good opportunity to critically scrutinize the way medical research and medical interventions are carried out For much of its history medicine has been very inefficient But even in its contemporary forms a review of common protocols in medical research and medical interventions reveal many shortcomings especially related to methodological flaws and more importantly conflicts of interests due to profit incentives In the face of these problems we propose a program of gentle medicine This term originally formulated by philosopher Jacob Stegenga describes a form of medicine in which physicians intervene less than they currently do As part of this general program we advance a series of reform recommendations that could be enacted both by medical staff in their everyday practice but also by public health officials and policymakers 