Tag: Medicina

Dedicated to Claudio Lenk (r.i.p.), Roxana Coll, Ignacio Cobeta, Víctor Osma, and Concha Doñaque. - I - Our voices have an almost magical power to attract or repel other people. And in many indigenous cultures –oral and rural ones, a person's voice is that person –it reflects their soul, their essence, their self. “There is no index of character so sure as the voice” (Benjamín Disraeli). For those of us who use our voices in our professional lives (teachers, actors, singers, salespeople, therapists, speakers, politicians, street vendors, receptionists, and many more), our voices are everything. We must educate them, mold them, and train them, lest –if we do not– we irreversibly damage or even lose them (nodules, polyps, edema, aphonia, dysphonia, etc.). Yet..., it is very difficul