Introduction With scientific and technological progress, the mechanistic approach began to dominate the human touch in modern health care. Following the principles of mind-body dualism, most physicians are inclined to focus on the diseased body and its physiological mechanisms, disregarding the patients’ suffering and psychological conditions. Compassion needs to be reintroduced into modern health care practice for humanizing biomedicine and improving the quality of the provided health care services. The moral of Christ’s parable about the Good Samaritan Christ’s lessons about the Good Samaritan can be regarded as an example of human compassion which should be followed by everyone and especially healthcare providers who need to serve the best interests of their patients. The discussed parable about the Good Samaritan who took care of the victim’s wounds was Jesus’ answer to a question concerning our neighbors. Through Christ’s parable does not answer the question directly, it teaches people how they should behave like neighbors. This lesson is especially valuable for healthcare providers who have the moral obligation to act by the patients’ best interests. However, in contrast to the man lying on the side of the street whose needs were obvious to the passing Good Samaritan, modern physicians may have difficulties with understanding the needs of their clients. With the pluralism of modern society, morality is the matter of personal preference and most individuals have become moral strangers and black boxes to each other (Welie 1995, 476). Thus, analyzing the application of black-box anthropology for establishing the relationship between healthcare providers and their patients, it can be stated that the principle of distancing to show respect for the patient’s privacy as the primary principle of modern healthcare contradicts the moral of the discussed parable. Disregarding the present decline in people’s ability to feel compassion, sharing the patients’ feelings and establishing the interpersonal rapport with them is necessary for modern healthcare providers for acting beneficently. Various definitions of the concept of compassion Though the concept of compassion has various definitions that make its meaning rather controversial, healthcare practitioners should nurture their ability to feel compassion as one of the greatest virtues. Analyzing the etymology of the word “compassion”, it can be stated that it originates from the Latin “co-pati” which means “suffer with” (Thomasma and Kushner 1995, 416). The element of suffering which is bad adds shades of a negative meaning to the concept of compassion. However, taking into account its antonyms, including cruelty, indifference, hard-heartedness, it can be logically assumed that compassion is attractive at least by contrast (Comte-Sponville 2009). By the way, the word sympathy as the synonymic doublet for compassion in modern Romance languages means “fellow feeling” which can be regarded as the more appropriate translation for compassion as well. In general, the definitions of compassion can be divided into two basic subgroups, including those which present compassion as an individual’s ability and willingness to understand person’s sufferin