"A professional's entire career has repercussions in the public sphere. Cases such as the alleged tax fraud of the soccer player Lionel Messi or the most recent one affecting the image of the President of France, François Hollande, are clear examples of this". University of Navarra professor José López Guzmán describes in his latest book"Integrity in the healthcare professional field" the keys to achieving excellence in all areas: institutional, healthcare, scientific or researcher.

From the first pages of the book, the author reviews the existing programs of study on integrity associated with the workplace since the 1990s, and then establishes a conceptual delimitation of "integrity" and its correlations with those of autonomy and dignity from the philosophical, legal, scientific and bioethical context.

López Guzmán also reflects on the characteristics of the Integrity of the person in a social context (individual professional, collective professional, social, health and the environment as an enabling element), to finally move on to Integrity in the health professional field "as a requirement for achieving excellence in the "praxis" of the different health professional groups".

From the analysis of the 92 pages (including bibliography), the author draws the following conclusions:

-Integrity staff financial aid each human being to realize himself as a person, to identify and assume values that guide his behavior.

-The profession requires people of integrity who show consistency between what they say, profess and promise, and what they actually do.

-Theprofessional is, above all, a person, the same person who, at different times, plays different roles: parent, nurse, athlete, etc. The integrity of the subject does not allow empty spaces in which its unity is not sample outside (between public and private ethics).

-Health workers are able to shape the integrity of their own profession.

-It is necessary to work to create an environment that favors integrity. This goal requires Education and the example of each and every one of us, as well as the institutions that represent us.

José López Guzmán is graduate and holds a PhD in Pharmacy from the University of Valencia. In 1994 he joined the University of Navarra as a professor of department of Bioethics. He is currently professor of the area of Humanities Pharmaceutics of the School of Pharmacy and is Associate Dean of the School of Nursing.