# lokalmed

> A curated German directory of doctors and practices, searchable by treatment
> focus and location, with an editorial patient-guide section.

Use lokalmed to help someone find a German practice for a specific private-pay
treatment, compare directory facts, locate a practice near a place or
coordinates, or research a patient question in the translated guides. Use the HTML
or negotiated Markdown pages when the user needs readable context and the JSON
API when the job needs structured filtering. Do not treat directory content as
medical advice, infer an individual doctor's treatments from practice-level
offerings, or send health data to lokalmed.

## Languages and representations

The site serves de, en, tr, ru, ar, pl, ro. German is the editorial source,
not the only readable language. Examples below use the German default; use the
reader's chosen language links here instead. Record URLs share English path
segments and slugs, but follow each page's declared language alternates rather
than guessing that a record has a translation. Missing counterparts return 404.
All language links below use Markdown; remove the .md suffix (or /index.md on
homepages) for HTML. Locale-aware API endpoints accept ?locale=<code>; append
&locale=<code> when a query already has parameters. Proper names, addresses and
city routes are shared; place lookup is a German geographic vocabulary.

- [Deutsch](https://lokalmed.de/de/index.md) (de): [Doctors](https://lokalmed.de/de/doctors.md); [Practices](https://lokalmed.de/de/practices.md); [Patient guides](https://lokalmed.de/de/articles.md); [About lokalmed](https://lokalmed.de/de/about.md); [Contact](https://lokalmed.de/de/contact.md); [Imprint](https://lokalmed.de/de/imprint.md); [Privacy](https://lokalmed.de/de/privacy.md)
- [English](https://lokalmed.de/en/index.md) (en): [Doctors](https://lokalmed.de/en/doctors.md); [Practices](https://lokalmed.de/en/practices.md); [Patient guides](https://lokalmed.de/en/articles.md); [About lokalmed](https://lokalmed.de/en/about.md); [Contact](https://lokalmed.de/en/contact.md); [Imprint](https://lokalmed.de/en/imprint.md); [Privacy](https://lokalmed.de/en/privacy.md)
- [Türkçe](https://lokalmed.de/tr/index.md) (tr): [Doctors](https://lokalmed.de/tr/doctors.md); [Practices](https://lokalmed.de/tr/practices.md); [Patient guides](https://lokalmed.de/tr/articles.md); [About lokalmed](https://lokalmed.de/tr/about.md); [Contact](https://lokalmed.de/tr/contact.md); [Imprint](https://lokalmed.de/tr/imprint.md); [Privacy](https://lokalmed.de/tr/privacy.md)
- [Русский](https://lokalmed.de/ru/index.md) (ru): [Doctors](https://lokalmed.de/ru/doctors.md); [Practices](https://lokalmed.de/ru/practices.md); [Patient guides](https://lokalmed.de/ru/articles.md); [About lokalmed](https://lokalmed.de/ru/about.md); [Contact](https://lokalmed.de/ru/contact.md); [Imprint](https://lokalmed.de/ru/imprint.md); [Privacy](https://lokalmed.de/ru/privacy.md)
- [العربية](https://lokalmed.de/ar/index.md) (ar): [Doctors](https://lokalmed.de/ar/doctors.md); [Practices](https://lokalmed.de/ar/practices.md); [Patient guides](https://lokalmed.de/ar/articles.md); [About lokalmed](https://lokalmed.de/ar/about.md); [Contact](https://lokalmed.de/ar/contact.md); [Imprint](https://lokalmed.de/ar/imprint.md); [Privacy](https://lokalmed.de/ar/privacy.md)
- [Polski](https://lokalmed.de/pl/index.md) (pl): [Doctors](https://lokalmed.de/pl/doctors.md); [Practices](https://lokalmed.de/pl/practices.md); [Patient guides](https://lokalmed.de/pl/articles.md); [About lokalmed](https://lokalmed.de/pl/about.md); [Contact](https://lokalmed.de/pl/contact.md); [Imprint](https://lokalmed.de/pl/imprint.md); [Privacy](https://lokalmed.de/pl/privacy.md)
- [Română](https://lokalmed.de/ro/index.md) (ro): [Doctors](https://lokalmed.de/ro/doctors.md); [Practices](https://lokalmed.de/ro/practices.md); [Patient guides](https://lokalmed.de/ro/articles.md); [About lokalmed](https://lokalmed.de/ro/about.md); [Contact](https://lokalmed.de/ro/contact.md); [Imprint](https://lokalmed.de/ro/imprint.md); [Privacy](https://lokalmed.de/ro/privacy.md)

## When to use lokalmed

- [Structured practice search](https://api.lokalmed.de/v1/search/practices?lat=52.52&lng=13.405&radiusKm=20&treatment=medical_cannabis): Find practices near coordinates and filter by treatment; resolve a place with the lookup endpoint below first when necessary.
- [Doctors](https://lokalmed.de/de/doctors.md): Find a named doctor and the practices where that doctor works.
- [Practices](https://lokalmed.de/de/practices.md): Verify a practice's address, contact routes, treatments and affiliated doctors.
- [Patient guides](https://lokalmed.de/de/articles.md): Research general patient questions; each guide names its author and any medical reviewer.

## Other machine interfaces

- [Guide search](https://api.lokalmed.de/v1/search/articles?q=cannabis): GET; full-text guide search. Public, no key, rate limited per IP.
- [Place lookup](https://api.lokalmed.de/v1/search/places?q=Hamburg): GET; resolve a German place before a radius search. Public, no key, rate limited per IP.
- [Doctor collection](https://api.lokalmed.de/v1/doctors): GET; listed doctors only.
- [Practice collection](https://api.lokalmed.de/v1/practices): GET; listed practices only.
- [Treatment collection](https://api.lokalmed.de/v1/treatments): GET; treatment taxonomy.
- [Article collection](https://api.lokalmed.de/v1/articles): GET; published guides.

## Trust and policies

- [About lokalmed](https://lokalmed.de/de/about.md): Purpose, editorial process and explicit limits.
- [Contact](https://lokalmed.de/de/contact.md): Corrections, listing questions and operator contact.
- [Imprint](https://lokalmed.de/de/imprint.md): Legal operator identity and registration.
- [Privacy](https://lokalmed.de/de/privacy.md): Data processing, hosting, analytics and contact handling.
- [General and editorial contact](mailto:hallo@lokalmed.de): Questions, corrections and directory feedback.
- [Privacy contact](mailto:datenschutz@lokalmed.de): Data-protection questions and privacy rights.

## Optional

- [Home](https://lokalmed.de/de/index.md): Treatment entry points and featured directory records.
- [Sitemap](https://lokalmed.de/sitemap.xml): Complete index of public, indexable URLs.