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1University Hospital of Parma - Orthopaedic Department, Parma, Italy.
Abstract:
Contemporary medicine is undergoing a paradoxical crisis: an unprecedented hypertrophy of data-a 'biological transparency' provided by the technical apparatus-which, instead of clarifying the clinical path, often petrifies the physician's judgement. This essay proposes a philosophical and epistemological shift from a 'potter's medicine' (based on the irrational accumulation of data, or 'mud') to a 'sculptor's medicine' (based on the Michelangelo-inspired 'via di levare,' or the way of taking away). By reclaiming the categories of Lightness (Calvino), the duality of Anthropos and Thanatos, and the Stoic discipline of sustine et abstine, the clinician can rediscover the diagnostic truth hidden beneath the noise of defensive medicine and technological excess.
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