Abstract
The primary interest of both physicians and patients lies in optimal medical care based on current scientific knowledge, with avoidance of harm. The ideal health-care system has: decision-makers who set its framework conditions according to the values of society at large; medical research that creates knowledge and makes it accessible; professional training and continuing education that enable physicians to handle information critically. Public opinion is sensitive to the risk of undue influence on physicians from third-party interests and from their own individual conflicts of interest. An ongoing, rational discussion of this risk is important if public confidence in the health-care system is to be sustained.
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