The millennium goals for health care for a Dutchman may be

less than the minimum he would accept but are not achieved worldwide.

Also in less prominent areas parts of the world are at a disadvantage. Medicine for example is mainly tested in the Western world. In the Western world lactose as an additive is not a problem because a person is raised on cow milk.

However, the rest of the world cannot consume lactose. For them, those medicaments are useless. The application of food supplements instead of medicine is becoming a trend 1

Insights and treatment modalities are different all over the world. What may seem completely normal and founded in one part of the world may be viewed exotic and inexplicable in another part. A Dutchman may look pityingly at a medicine man using untested ‘medicine’, whereas the medicine man looks the same way at the Dutchman repairing a body without purifying the patient’s sole. Healthcare can reinforce itself worldwide if we are ready to have confidence in the usefulness of insights and methods of others. In years to come we will have to approach each other more and more on the basis of cooperation. That way we will be able to join the best care of different parts of the world. The so called holistic way of thinking in healthcare is gradually establishing itself.