the professional codes for nursing and medicine stress the duties of health care professionals but also call for the cultivation of certain virtues honesty, conscientiousness,personal integrity,fairness,diligence,etc. the nurse or docter will be valued members of their profession the more they display these traits of character;the more they manifest these and other relevant virtues and the desire to cultivate them , the more they will be thought able to perform well their professional doties. just as truly, the more living kindness they display toward their patient, the more they will be considered as having before them a personal and professional ideal,universal compassion for suffering humanity.