[Complementary realities of physicians].

The patient expects his doctor on one hand to be a reliable expert on the other hand to be an empathetic partner. Union of both polar qualities is fundamental for a doctors complementary reality. Global medicine of tomorrow is only possible if modern doctors successfully achieve a fourfold synthesis: 1. synthesis in harmony between a cortical-rational attitude (mathematical reason) and a cordial-emotional devotion (reason of the heart) 2. equal promotion of science and humanity 3. equilibrated use and culture of medical technics and medical diction and 4. increasing harmony between male values and female norms. Future medicine has to follow complemental calls expressed by technological know-how and by reliable partnership. Exemplary physicians of former times and today may guide us to such synthesis.