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In negative terms we could say that the issue of health care humanization arises from the dehumanization of certain health practices; in positive terms we can instead go back to the most ancient roots of the humanitas that medicine has embodied. Nevertheless, even in this renewed interest, it has not always been possible to adequately humanize or re-humanize the actions of health workers. In history there have been different health care patterns (that this article briefly discusses) and various pressures, both religious (such as the great saints’ reformers of assistance) and secular, in order to humanize the health world. Today the need to renew this process is felt even more and the “humanization of health care” must be considered as a priority of current medicine.

A partir de la Parábola del Buen Samaritano, en el Evangelio de San Lucas, se aborda el concepto de “amor al prójimo”, llevado hasta sus últimas consecuencias por el Arzobispo Mártir Monseñor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, lo cual le costó la vida producto de un cobarde asesinato político, que en realidad fue un asesinato por “odio a la fe” católica, que había tomado parte por los pobres y olvidados de su país, el pueblo sufriente de una injusticia que clama al cielo. La praxis liberadora de Monseñor Romero constituye la senda a seguir en la praxis del amor que conduce a la plenitud de vida personal y social, histórica y trascendente, en la realización del reino de vida, verdad, justicia y amor aquí en la tierra. La visión de Monseñor Romero como pastor de la Iglesia Católica, al igual que las otras iglesias cristianas, reconoció que las decenas de miles de víctimas del conflicto social, constituían “el pueblo crucificado”. Starting from the Parable of the Good Samaritan, in the Gospel of Saint Luke, the concept of "love of neighbor" is addressed, carried to its ultimate consequences by Archbishop Mártir Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero, which cost him his life as a result of a cowardly political murder, which in reality was a murder for Catholic "hatred of the faith", which had taken part for the poor and forgotten of their country, the suffering people of an injustice that cries out to heaven. The liberating praxis of Monseñor Romero constitutes the path to follow in the praxis of love that leads to the fullness of personal and social, historical and transcendent life, in the realization of the reign of life, truth, justice and love here on earth. The vision of Monsignor Romero as pastor of the Catholic Church, like the other Christian churches, recognized that the tens of thousands of victims of social conflict, constituted "the crucified people".