Table 3 Codification of the voice of medicine and the voice of the Lifeworld

• Use of specialized language (jargon)

• Use of common, popular language

• Requests or interventions focused on specific facts or symptoms, if possible measured and quantified

• Requests or interventions referring to contextualized facts, historically situated, accompanied by affective comments, somehow integrated into a set of meanings that goes beyond the usual medical framework

• Requests or interventions that exclude family, social, cultural, or emotional elements

• Patient’s or companion's assumptions, judgments, emotions (fear, worries, etc.)