On 26/02/2013 the German law improving the rights of patients entered into force. According to the German Federal Government spirit and purpose of the law is to strengthen the position of patients against the health care providers. The protection of patients' rights is one of the most important social issues on the field of health care today. This need is articulated in Germany as well as in Turkey. This finding can be verified by looking at the media in both countries. However the legal positions for the protection of patients are completely different, so that they offered an interesting comparison of law in ordert o find the ideal legislation for the protection of patients' rights. This area of conflict was the onset of the X. German-Turkish Symposium on medical and biomedical law. The contributions of this symposium are gathered in this volume. With contributions by: Christoph Becker, Erwin Bernat, Benedikt Buchner, Carina Dorneck, Umit Gezder, Hakan Hakeri, Raphael Koch, Michael Linemann, Martin Rehborn, Henning Rosenau, Adrian Schmidt-Recla, Erhan Temel and Yener Unver