This is a very short editorial.

Its title echoes a quote from Emergency co-founder and soul, Gino Strada [1].

Emergency is one of the NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) that not only provides medical care but also education in war zones. The goal was not simply to lend “a hand,” but to establish hospitals where any of us would feel confident admitting our own children. To date, Emergency has treated millions of patients [2].

After years of wars in Sudan, Ukraine, and Gaza—just to mention those most frequently reported in The Lancet—we still do not know what happened to patients with CKD or kidney failure in those areas [3,4,5,6].

Some of us watch the Global Sumud Flotilla with passion, others with disdain.

This is just one example.

The focus on the right to fight should probably remain with politicians.

The focus on the rights of the most fragile, our patients, should certainly rest with us as physicians [7, 8].

We, as doctors, could indeed help by simplifying complex issues into this single statement Gino Strada left us: “the world should be like this—those who need help should be helped” [1] (Fig. 1).