The greatest liability of medicine is its conservative nature. Conservatism does not excuse indifference, ignorance, or disrespect. Too often the medical profession is not current in regard to important information. Today's era of electronic communication appears to have reached out to the patients more than their physicians. An important associated responsibility of the health care community is to listen to their patients.
Integrity is an inherent guide as to the worth of an individual.
Integrity is something not immediately evident to the beholder. In the world of medicine there are a myriad of adverse external influences acting against the provision of good health care directed to the patient's benefit. These undesirable pressures seem to multiply each day. The result is a most frustrating and demoralizing situation. Mr. Wallenberg, through the use of bribery, threats of postwar retribution and sheer nerve, saved over 100,000 Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis during the second world war.