Relación médico-paciente. Profesionalismo e información.

The doctor’s professional, social, moral, academic, economic, etc. situation is nowadays sensitive, as it is at a crossroads. But the doctor must always support the patient et- hically and morally, while being immerse in the estate or pri- vate health service, which provide the necessary funding. “To be or not to be” is the current situation of the doctor, with the particularities of the orthopaedic surgeon. This work analyses the complexity of the doctor-patient relationship and the way of assist and sustain it as a founding stone of our profession, not forgetting the exceptional external circumstances that try to manipulate it. Moreover, professionalism is presented as the relationship of the doctor with society, with other doctors and with him or her self. Finally, there is special emphasis on the difficulty in obtaining reliable information for best practise in dealing with our patients as orthopaedic surgeons.