Missional Medicine: Restoring the Soul of Healthcare

The noble profession of medicine, whose mission was built on the common values of mercy and compassion, has been highjacked by powerful commercial interests determined to maximize profits, and by social engineers who manipulate medicine to reshape society itself. Growing numbers of patients and doctors are alarmed by the drift away from medicine's mission of caring for the sick and hurting. The soul of healthcare has been lost amid the profiteering and fragmentation we see in American healthcare. Medicine has been weaponized in ways that work against both doctors and patients. The Judeo-Christian medical ethic of valuing all human life has been scrapped for a pragmatic "quality of life" ethic which undermines the historical moral foundations of healthcare. However, a growing number of Christian medical professionals are determined to recover their calling to missional medicine. Missional Medicine provides the "why" and the "how" to restore a distinctively Christian approach to the delivery of healthcare that prioritizes patients over payments. This is a book that presents a distinctively Christian theology of healthcare largely missing in contemporary medical education and practice. Read more