[Relations between the physician and patient in Polish medical history studies]

The author has presented the critical evaluation of Polish medical historiography, upbraiding it with concentration at the successes of scientific medicine, with not noticing this what is included into folk medicine or paramedicine and total lack of interest in patient. He can see the correct interest in social problems of medicine history only in works and centres dominated by the professional historians, not by the physicians. Despite the censorious opinion by the reviewer, the editorial staff has decided to publish the article accompanied by the answer to review, treating it as the introduction to methodological discussion between the medicine historians - physicians and historians - who are engaged in the history of medicine.