The pundits, the journalists, some waiters explain it to me, because I have a wonderful magnet for confidences and what young people call a gossip session, the scoop on the Andic case. This case that has a giant popular jury open 24 hours a day. It is all of us and it is all of us who cry out: "Do not ask me for my opinion on whether he is guilty or innocent, ask me what I wish him to be". It is as if we all, all of us wished —because now crimes are all just a joke— that Jonathan Andic killed his father.

The first time I heard the mandate that every health professional commits to was in my first experimental psychology class, in the words of the much-loved and missed Professor Ramón Bayés. “Primum non nocere,” he said with the solemnity of the most sacred. First, do no harm. In my youthful naivety, I thought this ethical principle was indelibly etched in everyone who dedicated themselves to psychology and medicine. Later, unfortunately, I have found that this is not the case.