Organize to serve: An ecclesiastical approach to medicine and dermatology

Abstract Maintenance and promotion of health are worldwide activities, yet those devoted by their profession to these goals are currently hopelessly fractionated and involved in struggling for territory and self-sustenance. The author proposes the creation of a World Medical Congregation, eventually encompassing all physicians. This integrative endeavor would model itself after the governance of the Roman Catholic Church, without the latter’s obvious confessional characteristics.