Paul and Sébastien presents two generations of general practitioners who practise in contrasting ways. Sébastien Martin is a young doctor who works in a city group-surgery in Lausanne, where he has his own patients. He also does duty for the group’s permanency, open from 7.0 a.m. till 9.0 p.m. His thoughtful way of working and the quality of his understanding reassures his patients. His organisation in a group surgery gives us an insight into what a general practice could become tomorrow.
Paul Affentranger, aged 64, is the perfect incarnation of the old-fashioned doctor who is nowadays dying out. He has tremendous drive, incredible energy, he knows all the inhabitants in the Entlebuch area, for whom he is on call day and night. Persuaded that two doctors would be needed to be capable of undertaking the same amount of work he gets through all by himself, he pinpoints the serious problem of his succession.