In The Language of Medicine, Abraham Fuks, physicians, medical educator, and former Dean of Medicine at McGill University, shows us how words are potent drugs that must be tailored to the individual patient and applied in carefully chosen and measured doses to offer benefits and avoid toxicity Building on research about physicians in practice, the experiences of patients, stores of medical students, as well as the history of medicine, Dr. Fuks promotes an idea of clinical practice that is achieved by humble physicians who provide time and space for listening, select words with care, and choose metaphors that engender healing.