This article discusses the medical act from the perspective of its subjective implications, and questions the development of a practice that faces continual impasses. The difficulty is that the importance and possibilities related to the management of clinical realities are invisible to perception based exclusively on biological life processes. Emphasis is given here to iatropathogenic effects that this perspective implies. The author thus offers approaches that may favor the establishment of more productive alternatives for professionals and their patients who require attention in the field of health care.
Psychoanalysis; medical act; iatrogeny; subjectivity; medical practice