Mrs. Goodwin's exam is completely normal, except for mild fibrocystic disease bilaterally. The pre-employment form asks Dr. Beale if the patient has any serious medical problems. Poster boys For individuals, integrity is a virtue. For organizations, it is a business necessity. Integrity is what patients expect from health plans, and integrity is what they will get, even if they have to go to regulators to get it.
Integrity combines a sense of duty to others with proper business conduct.
Though integrity is now on everyone's lips, it has been in short supply. Integrity is now organizational, not just personal. That is the change in integrity. As the delivery of care has been integrated with its financing, patients have come to expect that their physician is no longer in charge. To many patients, physicians today are the personification of a health plan's billing and informing practices and of a hospital or health system's community conduct.