Medicalization, specifically, is the attribution of medical connotations to events of other perinence, and the recourse to the medical doctor for the solution of problems that would require other skills, in whole or in part substantial. of other professional competence, and consequent impossibility of reaching possible positive solutions. In this short essay we focus on the medicalization of problems that are of fundamental pedagogical relevance, in which the doctor is invested beyond his professional skills and the possible solutions refer to distant even when pedagogy would have to offer them.