Serum and anise

Abstract

There are times in our professional practise when we directly confront concepts that so often go unnoticed, such as transference and countertransference with our patients. This is the case of Daniel: the ilustration of the famous “difficult patient”; a young polydrug addict with cognitive impairment and severe difficulty with impulse control, raised in a dysfunctional family environment and in a situation of institutional neglect. He is one of those patients for whom Family and Community Medicine must “hold consultation looping out at the street”. This narrative of life makes us reflect on how, when we cannot modify a harmful or disruptive behavior in a person, we can change, through affection, understanding and care, the dynamics and the sphere that surrounds us both, stripping ourselves of the medical ego of curing, in order to learn to accompany through communication.