Researchers must continuously remind themselves of the heavy responsibility they carry. They must remember that their work will serve their medical colleagues in treating patients. Therefore, they are obliged to write every word and consider every sentence with the utmost possible care and with the same caution and concern they would exercise if they were treating a patient at the time. Based on this ethical commitment, they must carry out this important role with full and complete scientific accuracy, intellectual honesty and personal honesty and integrity.