title: [General practice: between academic medicine and alternative medicine?].
abstract: Academic medicine has continuously changed from a medical art into a technological science. As a consequence, so called alternative methods became increasingly popular, being regarded as a more human and comprehensive medicine. This article tries to give advice how the practitioner could find his position in between the different concepts.
authors.affiliation: Policlinique médicale universitaire, Lausanne.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Graf
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D000529:Complementary Therapies; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D011364:Professional Practice; D013557:Switzerland