Humanism and Medicine: a Forced Misunderstanding?

We frequently see the terms medicine and humanism intermixed in various expressions and meanings: "humanizing medicine", "humanities in medicine", "more human medicine" or "humanized medicine", among many others. However, despite their textual similarities, I believe that the proposal underlying most of these approaches is at best, confusing, or at worst, clearly mistaken, as it pretends to teach the humanities for the practice of medicine. In this essay I want to show that there is an idea of humanism that is naturally intrinsic and inseparable from the practice of medicine, whose praxis must be understood as a "pedagogy of healing". For this, I will show in a first part the definitions of the ontological categories that allow us to be and exist in the world, then I will try to define humanism from what it has been historically and what it is not, in a pragmatic sense, to finally demonstrate the confluence of medicine and humanism in a proposal that must acknowledge communication with and interpretation of "the human being/patient".