[Medical specialism and academic teaching]. / Arztliche Spezialisierungen und akademischer Unterricht.

Splitting up medical subjects caused remarkable progress in hospital medicine. The most influence on medical education is produced by the organisation itself. As to applied medicine in general much progress will be reached, if applied medicine has become a topic of basic research in hospital medicine.

[Renaissance of general practice]. / Die Renaissance der Allgemeinmedizin.

Special research work has taught that general practice (family medicine) is a specialization of its own. It requires specific education and vocational training. As far as universities and administrative bodies have accepted it no doctor can start practising family medicine unless he has passed a vocational training of many years duration. That fact together with a successful continued research concerning applied general practice should initiate a true renaissance of general practice.

[Pyogenic infections in general practice]. / Pyogene Infektionen in der Allgemeinpraxis.

Between 1944 and 1996 in comparable Middle-European general practices the statistical figures of superficial pyogenic infections had dropped remarkably. That had not be known up to now. Tonsillitis, otitis media and appendicitis did not show that decrease. In the literature the author did not find relevant papers.

[Epidemiologic research in general medicine]. / Epidemiologische Forschungen in der Allgemeinmedizin.

To succeed in creating comparable cases-statistics in general practice (= family medicine) requires a specific scientific basis. So far, only R. N. Braun was able to meet those requirements, whilst world-wide other epidemiologists failed to develop suitable frequency-statistics of results of consultations on the medical front-line.

[Problems in early diagnosis of malignancies in general medicine]. / Die Problematik der Früherkennung von Malignomen in der Allgemeinmedizin.

If specialists expect general practitioners to carry out extensive investigations serving early detection of diseases they don't consider how limited in that respect the possibilities of general practitioners are. In general, practice however the early detection of malignancies is satisfactory if the doctor makes use of the short time available the best possible.