Two recent, prominently cast panel discussions focused on the future of medical technology and knowledge-based healthcare delivery. Nobel Laureates Werner Arber, Aaron Ciechanover, and Hartmut Michel talked about patient participation, social consensus, and new financing models with the CEO of Siemens Healthcare, Hermann Requardt, and Markus Schwaiger, from University Hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany. In another panel, Requardt, Heinrich Iro from the University Medical Center Erlangen, Germany, and Peter Oberender of the University of Bayreuth, Germany, asked physicians to achieve a new balance between experience and knowledge.