[The clinician's cultural identity and its role in the relation with the patient]

From an interactionist point of view, the cultural life history of the clinician is as important as that of the patient. In present day Europe, migratory upheavals have requested adjustments at all levels. There are foreign patients, yet professionals are themselves also culturally diversified. Affected by the migration stress, they too are submitted to its effects. The author proposes that the patient/clinician relationship be revisited in the light of the interpretative-reflexive interaction model between informant and ethnographer in the anthropological fieldwork.