ABSTRACT
Thinking alone is recommended, but thinking with others, in dialogue, is even better. In this chapter, two friends climb a hill in Scotland while analysing how it is possible to create spaces where diverse groups of engaged clinicians can meet, share experiences, and think together. Think about living a life in medicine, about dignity, about meaning, suffering, power—any carefully chosen question from the barrel of unresolvable and mind-opening themes that permeate clinical practice. The ambition of such meetings was larger than to passively absorb lectures from those who know. It was to create meetings of minds; meetings of stories; safe spaces where the personal doubts, the misgivings, and the pain of doctoring can be voiced, listened to, and healed. And where joy can emerge and foster strength, optimism, and perhaps a grain of wisdom.
