Christianity makes a difference to health care and we are finding that out

Before Christianity, there was no such thing as hospitals that take care of all people. 

Humane treatment of patients, but most of all the idea that people have an innate sense of responsibility and can act on it, is by no means something universally known or prized. The current era repudiates the Christian legacy, which includes enabling others of good will to reach their potential as helpers of those in need. Instead, an administrative mentality has already taken over, with unforeseen consequences that cannot be remedied until we understand what it is that Christianity offers the world. Where doctors and nurses (and aides) cared for patients based on their skills and knowledge, we now instead have medicine by rote. It's like Moneyball but for health. 

The sad thing is that good medical personnel (of all creeds) are trapped. Like the rest of us, they had no idea that the world view would shift, leaving them without a voice. I know that good doctors are not happy to have to go along with what the unknown powers have deemed standard operating procedure, whether of critical race theory, gender ideology, or Covid restrictions. I know that good nurses have quit rather than try to go through each day covered in "PPE" that renders them inaccessible to the very patients they need to reach. I know doctors who fear being caught in a situation where they have to go along with mutilation of the body. 

Here is an important article on the subject of silencing, by Bari Weiss. Keep in mind that President Biden has removed conscience protections for medical professionals. As you read, think about the fundamental view of the person that informs how the system itself is set up. Medicine ought to be about the whole person; it ought to look at health integrally. But its agents, doctors and nurses, are also whole persons. They can only approach the patient with their integral being. Nothing can replace their ability to know and act -- no purely bureaucratic system can replace it. There will always be costs and benefits. We can't minimize risk to zero, nor should we try. In fact, it's better to assume more risk on a purely physical plane if it means preserving less risk of dehumanizing -- and really, tormenting -- the ill and their caregivers.