[Covering physician system in the regional hospital]

1. At first the socio-political context is shown. Equality and inflation of demands have their price in the modern society of prosperity. Health, however, has become number one in our demands. 2. Nearly half of all the 700 surgeons of Switzerland are working in public hospitals. A few more than the other half are in private practice. Stationary surgery is done either in a public hospital or in a private clinic, the last one being either subsidized or not. 3. All the hospitals for surgical formation and the places with private hospitals are mentioned. 4. "Belegärzte" treat their patients in their private practice and operate on them, when they become stationary, in all the three types of hospitals cited above. 5. An analysis of the status quo is thought to prepare the questions for the following round table discussion, which might show us new ways in between tradition on one hand and alteration and futurism on the other hand.