ABSTRACT
Thirteen physicians gathered to explore a shared, unresolved question: What Is the Right Stuff of Medicine? Through dialogue, silence, and embodied practices, they created a space where care, presence, and vulnerability could surface. This chapter traces their collective inquiry—an experiment in holding space for discomfort, for knowing beyond words, for strength found in relation. Coloured marbles, exchanged in silence, became symbols of trust, resistance, and shared responsibility. Rather than offering answers, the gathering revealed that to steward medicine is to tend to its fragility, to question its norms, and to remain open to what care truly demands. It is a call to listen, to disrupt, and to dwell with what cannot be easily named.
