Therapist and physician, nurse and surgeon should work together. This appears to be clear, and yet this cooperation of the healing professions is still in development. What is new is that also patients with the same suffering come together in the consultation because the fellow sufferers make it easier to tackle habits. To heal in and through the community – that is the topic of the conversation with Georg Soldner on the occasion of the upcoming annual conference of the Medical Section from September 13 to 18, 2022. Wolfgang Held asks the questions.