Oh, almost certainly not. Don't point that out to our hosts, you might find it used as some other incentive - 'you can only understand someone when you're in contact with them' or some such nonsense.

[The great thing about his truly expressive face is that it can express just how ugh that idea makes him.]

And if the effects of magical healing on the illnesses are any indication, my Gift would do nothing in such an instance, even though it should make such restrictions meaningless.