No doctor is aware that they have been changing in the process of becoming a doctor. I am a clinician with the background of being educated in anthropology during medical school. I have been documenting and reflecting on the unique culture of the doctors and the process of becoming a doctor in my field notes. I have named the process of becoming a doctor "becoming doctors. “This report highlighted the process of becoming doctors by doctor myself, including a medical student and after becoming a doctor. I showed the possibility of relativization to help doctors themselves by being aware of becoming a doctor.

  This article is based on my personal experiences as a physician. As a new physician in the community, I had a hard time gaining acceptance in the community. By walking around the region on my own, learning the region's unique dialect, and learning about the lives and lifestyles of the people who live there, I considered what it means for me to be accepted into the community. What made it possible for me to deal with the region in this way was the perspective of anthropology I learned as a student, in which I questioned what was natural to me and relativized my position and course of being. This article aims to look forward to the collaboration between anthropology and community medicine as a practice that will help physicians deepen their self-awareness.

  I was raised as an evangelical protestant. In medical school, I learned cultural relativism; there was a conflict between my Christian faith and cultural relativism. Ultimately, I found a way to reconcile cultural relativism and my faith by abandoning Biblical inerrancy. Based on this experience, I asserted following four points: First, my opposition to cultural relativism had its roots in Biblical inerrancy. Second, strict relativism can only be claimed unto oneself, but it is nearly impossible to adhere to the principle. However, it is a principle that should be upheld for the sake of understanding other people. Third, by using Daniel Everett's case, I explained that cultural relativism, which is not ethical relativism, can be established. Fourth, I argued that anthropological perspectives help resolve the discrepancies created by the monism of biomedicine; and I presented my approach to the practice of medicine through fictitious case studies.

  The purpose of this paper is to examine how physicians should handle the perspectives of citizens and medical professionals when engaging in community medicine, and how fieldwork experience and dialogue with anthropologists can influence this behavior, based on my own case as a physician.

  I was engaged in community medicine as a family doctor, but once I left my clinical practice, I had the experience of doing fieldwork in a sake-making activity conducted by residents and nurses in a certain village.

  Through dialogue with anthropologists, I learned the important attitude in fieldwork, which is to receive the perspectives of the people living in the community as they are.

  I realized that it is important for doctors to treat the "sense of moyamoya" with care, to ask questions that encompass both medical and life perspectives, and to join the community as a member of "community building" rather than "health promotion".

  This study aimed to consider the possibility of dialogue and collaboration between doctors engaging in community medicine and anthropologists engaging in fieldwork, focusing on the similarities between them. The relationship between doctors and anthropologists was discussed from the perspective of the following four points: long stay, technical and folk terms (dialects), understanding others, and modifying one’s actions. It is important for doctors and anthropologists working in the field to be accepted by patients in their communities. Moreover, doctors and anthropologists should trust patients in the clinical field. Relativization is relevant in both field work and community medicine, and its attitude is cultivated through both. Doctors intend to understand their patients by embodying relativization and modifying their actions in clinical scenarios. In conclusion, doctors can collaborate with anthropologists, and vice versa, and learn from each other through dialogues.