[Responsibility in medicine--from the dialog viewpoint]

The rapid progress in modern medicine puts a strong strain on the question of trust and responsibility within the doctor-patient-relationship. More control has increasingly been demanded but has not provided any satisfying solutions so far. No clear point of view can be discerned in the present discussion about responsibility. Responsive, communicative, relational and distributive models are the topics of discussion. Still they can't serve as arguments for the responsibility for something as well as the being responsible to somebody as claimed by Hans Jonas. Acknowledging the subjectivity of responsibility a position of dialogue ought be taken. Martin Buber as well as Ferdinand Ebner consider the "Though" in opposition to the "I" on the ontological level as being symmetric and autonomous which reaches further then the sociological, psychological and legal position. Bubner as well as Ebner furthermore provide an analogy to the human "I-Though-relationship" and the relationship between men and the eternal and absolute "Though". Thus they reason responsibility and consciousness. "Ethics speaks primarily to the right and wrong in human relationships".