ABSTRACT
Two clinicians explore the same problem from different perspectives—one from the tradition of critical philosophy, the other from a general practitioner’s clinic. The problem is this: that suffering is subjective, personal, and unique. Medicine is technical, scientific, and objective—it makes things out of people—it has to. Subjective suffering and objective medicine don’t share a natural language. They conflict. This can lead to confusion and more suffering. It might also generate new ways forward, new ways of knowing.
