The hospital system began as a Christian charity. Hospital comes from the same root words as hospice and hospitality and originally means a place of care and ministry to the needy. Forms of medicine predate Christianity, of course, the Hippocratic oath is an ancient Greek statement. But only the Christian West created large, charitable institutions, specifically devoted to the care of the sick and needy, and it originally it was done at great sacrifice and cost to the providers, with no government subsidies or profit motive.
For decades, more, Western countries have been functioning under the myth that you can secularise medical care and align it with a profit motive. It's the biggest business in the world, now. But this has completely corrupted the whole system. Read the original Hippocratic oath compared to the watered-down modern versions, they are now deplorable. Here are some examples of how modern medicine has gone wrong.
