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take, but also with attitude and actions, is a powerful, yet
little used, therapeutic weapon. The ability to advise comes
with experience that only life can teach. We do not learn
how to offer our patients advice from libraries or labora-
tories, but living life to the fullest.
Therefore, listening and offering advice, along with phys-
ical examination and sophisticated treatment to which we
now have access, confer humanity to the technical expertise,
which is much needed by our patients. Listening and offer-
ing advice transform the “I-It”, which is the exclusive con-
cern with the disease in its biological dimension, into “I-
Thou”, that redeems Medicine from its pure materiality.
To my young colleagues, I suggest that they live, re-
flect and learn at every moment, to better hear and gain
experience so that they can offer advice, because, in the
words of Socrates, the unexamined life is not worth liv-
ing. Listening is a practice that rescues “Thou” from “It”
since, according to Buber, “a tragedy of human existence
is that the I-Thou is doomed to be reduced to an I-It re-
lationship.”
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