Family Medicine and the Handmaid's Tale

Abstract

How is it possible to know if a utopia is becoming a dystopia? One way is through language, when language official, that of regulations, policies, goals, also serve to re-educate and subdue the subjects in a system of power, leaves to be a utopia. Language is presented as an instrument or symbol of control and coercion, which has the power to signal, it has the power to influence reality (Moreno Trujillo, 2016).
This essay is a reference to the dystopian contradiction of the strategy called Primary Health Care (PHC), of the pioneers who established it, of the training institutions of resources, of the institutions that provide services, and of the women and men who choose medicine as a profession. The narrative and the illusions of two medical women, becomes the common thread that allows the analysis of the development of this speech, of this language. For this, the stories of life and struggle, of two family doctors.