title: [End of the word and relegation of bodies in medicine: university formation of physicians].
abstract: Medicine is based on a growing demand for science. Yet, the patient's speech is ill adapted to the current desire of rationality. Inaccuracy and errancy have become the features of clinical examination. Self censorship of the speech gradually appears. Presenting the body becomes useless, if not suspicious. Medical technology replaces perceived subjectivity. What medicine says prevails over what the body knows. In a strange paradox, the "echo" precedes the speech. The risk of having an autistic medicine is looming. University teaching must be aware of this. The obvious gap between the speech and the body not only evades the ethical issue but also paradoxically deprives the medicine from its scientific acumen.
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authors.lastname: Sicard
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000592:standards*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000592:standards; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D010358:Patient Participation; D010808:Physical Examination; D010820:Physicians; D013060:Speech