Genuinely Great Doctors

The Mishna says טוב שברופאים לגיהנם, even the best of doctors are destined for gehinom. Another explanation given in these words is that truly great doctors enter the gehinom of their patients who are suffering immensely. They truly feel their pain.

Kiddushin 82a.

Rashi explains that they eat healthily and do not fear sickness and consequently not humble before Hashem; at times they cause death; and they refuse to heal the poor who cannot pay.

R' Yitzchak Hutner related that he once visited Dr. Wallach in the Shaarei Tzedek hospital in Yerushalayim. He saw that the doctor would approach the patient before his surgery and ask his mother’s name so that he would daven for him.

Pachad Yitzchak, Igros U’kesavim 94.