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And this gets to the heart of what it {used to} mean(s) to be a physician or other healer. Self-sacrifice. We willingly put ourselves in harms’ way sometimes, for the sake of our patients who have placed their very lives in our hands.

I was puzzled and even distressed early on when even the Christian healthcare folks and organizations (Christian Medical and Dental Association, for one) focused on fear rather than faithful compassionate service.

What?!

In pandemics past - REAL pandemics, like the bubonic plague and yellow fever - the Christians were known BECAUSE they courageously cared for the sick and dying even at great risk to their own well being.

The essence of the medical profession is service to others. Not preservation of self.

But I guess when folks no longer have a Christian worldview in which Jesus’ self-sacrifice is the model to follow, then, we end up with folks being motivated solely by self-preservation.

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