Editorial

摘要

The second EuJIM issue of the year 2010 opens with a lead article on professional treatment in the context of medical pluralism. Medical professionalism has been increasingly debated during recent years with particular focus on the principles for successful patient/physician relationships. The present article extends these discussions under the premises of integrative medicine, i.e. coexistence of conventional and complementary/alternative medical approaches. The authors including the president of the German Medical Association are founders of the German and the European Dialogue Forums on Pluralism in Medicine devoted to promote dialogue between different medical approaches and to foster integrative medicine. In the present article they propose professional standards for science and pluralism, evaluation, and competence.