This article provides a brief history of healthcare and the beginning of hospitals. The author shows that Christians provided compassionate heathcare based on an understanding of man being created in the image of God and the command to love one's neighbour. Therefore, Christian caregivers today should still be motivated by this same conviction.

This article is especially about the issues nurses are confronted with in their profession. The article looks at the value of life, death, euthanasia, caring, and helping badly malformed people.