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VILLARREAL, Jesús. Language, praxis and power articulation: speech at the doctor-patient relationship. Salus [online]. 2015, vol.19, suppl., pp.16-21. ISSN 1316-7138.

In this essay different reflections on joint language and praxis and power are discussed. The following aspects are considered in concrete terms: (i) Language and Social Sense; (ii) Language and Praxis; (iii) Language and Power; (iv) Language, Praxis and Power in the doctor-patient relationship; I ended with the exposure of the product reflections of the analysis-synthesis process applied for the examination of the concepts presented. Its aim is to present basic theoretical aspects concerning the doctor-patient relationship during the events that characterize the development of therapeutics for healing. In particular, as regards the quality of medical language, which must be directed toward the good, through the proper use of authority and power relations; the author considers that the speech should model, among other conditions, the dignity of the act in order to build a good life. These ideas are impregnated by the need to maintain and develop a care humanely, in which the importance of perceiving the patient as a human-integral and not as a systematization of organs and systems, manifest symptoms and reactions. The communication has the power to make the human being aware of itself and can be recognized by the other, the doctor recognized the patient as a human being and the patient in the same manner with the doctor, in addition to the roles that they cover the effect of disease-health situation, would result in achieving high human interests of medical action.

Palavras-chave : Language; power; doctor-patient relationship; medical discourse; medical practice; health communication.