Organized medical care has a long history of being carried out by members of religious orders, with formal doctors and nurses being pretty recent in the grand scheme of things.
In the olden days in Europe, medicine was almost exclusively the responsibility of the religious leaders, since a large portion of medicine is death, and death is a religion’s bread & butter.
High-ranking people knew to supplement their monk doctors with a military-experienced battlefield medic, who knew how to treat serious injuries with actual medical treatment, and not just prayers.
Organized medical care has a long history of being carried out by members of religious orders, with formal doctors and nurses being pretty recent in the grand scheme of things.
In the olden days in Europe, medicine was almost exclusively the responsibility of the religious leaders, since a large portion of medicine is death, and death is a religion’s bread & butter.
High-ranking people knew to supplement their monk doctors with a military-experienced battlefield medic, who knew how to treat serious injuries with actual medical treatment, and not just prayers.