Individual protocols
Your protocol is written from your findings: diagnosis, stage, immune status, metabolic profile, and what you want back. Someone with the same diagnosis in the next room may have a different plan.
Integrative medicine since 1991
Our approach
How a treatment plan at St. George Hospital is built, in the order it happens: tests first, then one combined plan, treatment on the ward and follow-up at home.
How we think
Where most people arrive, and where we start
Most patients come to us after conventional care has done what it could. Complex chronic disease, advanced cancer and multi-system illness rarely fit a single-pathway plan, and this hospital is built for them. The diagnostic half of the work is functional medicine; the treatment half is integrative medicine.
In practice, that means one protocol that can combine conventional therapy with biological medicine, immune modulation, hyperthermia, apheresis, detoxification, nutrition and psychological care. Licensed physicians plan these therapies together, after the tests, in a licensed acute internal medicine hospital.
Measure first
Nobody is treated here before they have been measured
The plan is written from the work-up. Blood is drawn on the morning you arrive and analyzed in the hospital's own laboratory: immune profile, markers of infection and inflammation, metabolic and mitochondrial function, and specialized Lyme testing where the history calls for it. Your prior imaging and findings are read next to the new values. Diagnostics lists what each panel looks for.
The same measurements are repeated at a mid-stay review and at follow-up, with the same instruments, so you and your physician can see what has changed.
Combine
How we work
Multimodal therapy
Immune therapy, hyperthermia, apheresis, detoxification, targeted infusions and supportive care are timed to work together. The full list is under Therapies.
Evidence in plain words
For each therapy we state the evidence level for the proposed use: strong, moderate, emerging or limited. A therapy outside standard care is an individual treatment attempt, decided with you after medical consultation.
Immune system focus
Many of our therapies aim to regulate and support the immune system, and the immune markers from your baseline are repeated during the stay.
Whole-patient care
Psychological support, nutrition, physical therapy and help with stress are on your schedule alongside the medical therapies, planned from the start.
One team, one chart
Friedrich Douwes M.D. founded the hospital in 1991 on this arrangement. Today Julian Douwes M.D. writes the protocols, together with the medical team.
Where the plan is carried out
Infusion room · St. George Hospital 
Therapy room · St. George Hospital 
Examination room · St. George Hospital
From your first inquiry to follow-up at home
Inquiry and video call
A free initial inquiry to the International Office, which requests your records and arranges a video consultation before you travel.
Diagnostics
Blood is drawn on your first morning. Laboratory panels, your imaging and specialized tests show what is out of balance.
Treatment planning
Your physician explains each proposed therapy: why it is there, how strong its evidence is, and what will be measured.
Active treatment
Two to five weeks on the ward depending on the program. Values are repeated so the plan can be adjusted.
Follow-up at home
Detailed written plans for your physician at home. Follow-up questions go to the International Office.
Next step
Start with a short inquiry
What the cost overview covers: Costs and insurance.
Send a free inquiry
The initial inquiry is free of charge. The International Office reviews your message and your case directly and gets back to you.
- Phone
- +49 8061 398-0
- Hours
- Mon–Thu 08:00–17:00, Fri 08:00–14:00 German time (CET/CEST); in the US Mon–Thu 2–11 a.m. ET, Fri 2–8 a.m. ET.
Munich Airport (MUC), about 60 minutes by car.