If you are a young physician building up a fashionable practice, is it not important to go to parties given by wealthy patients and to share their social life? When, because of your growing prominence, you are asked to serve on committees for charity drives and to sit on hospital boards, is it not your duty to lend your time and good judgment to these worthy enterprises? Our doctor is not a Faustian figure beset with the lust for power or pleasure. But he is given no warning, no time to think or choose. The assault on his integrity is so subtly veiled that a good chunk of it is nibbled away before he knows what is happening to him. It is a law of our civilization that as soon as a man proves he can contribute to the well-being of the world, there be created an immediate conspiracy to destroy his usefulness, a conspiracy in which he is usually a willing collaborator. Sometimes he awakens to his danger and does something about it. That is the story of ALLEGRO.