Ordinary medicine is the kind of medicine used within traditional health systems, which is to say among hospitals and doctors.

In many cases the personal doctor or physician will provide medicine or prescriptions. A personal doctor or physician will typically examine the same patient more than once through life.

What is ordinary medicine and how does it relate to and differ from other types of medicine? What does it take to build good and trusting relations between doctors and patients?

Keynote speakers on ordinary medicine take a closer look at the topic and on such questions.