Dear Editor:
As a young officer of Citibank, in the mid 1980s, I was sent to a week-long course, called “Managing People for Middle Managers.” (We called it Management Boot Camp!) It was a course for those on the “fast track” in Citibank; people the bank determined were going to be the next line of managers, who would move up quickly. Among the things we learned were concepts like “there is no right way to do the wrong thing,” and to “consider every decision we made as if it would appear on the front page of the New York Times,” just as soon we made that decision.
After being a patient of Dr. Felix Roque for the last eight or more years, among the things I have learned about Dr. Roque is that he has the highest level of integrity and honesty. That Dr. Roque does, indeed, conduct his practice and his care of patients as if everything he does will be printed on the front page of the New York Times immediately. Everything Dr. Roque does is so highly ethical that if it were, indeed, published in the Times, he could be proud of those decisions, of those methods of caring for people. Dr. Roque might even blush at how highly people regard him and his approach to life and people.
Dr. Felix E. Roque is going to run for the office of mayor of West New York, New Jersey. The people of West New York should be extremely pleased to have Dr. Roque run, and they should elect him with a landslide vote. Why? Because Dr. Roque will conduct the business of the Town of West New York in the open, and will treat the business of West New York as if it were a patient of his, taking care to ensure the good health of the town of West New York, and all of its citizens. As the Hippocratic Oath begins, that is how Dr. Roque would work for the town of West New York, and I paraphrase: “First, do no harm!”
Alex Howard