"The future is messy and the past is neat" - Seth Goden
It always seems that way and is described very clearly in the quote by Seth. I have always called the phenomenon of the future being messy 'the inverse midas touch'
There are times it seems that everything I touch turns to s*&t and no matter how hard I try I just wade through it. Patients will come in with problems, day after day. Staff will have issues, personal and professional. There will be issues at home, my car will break, my computer will break, I will get injured.
It will generally come to a head when I think things are just starting to improve and a patient will walk into my practice with one of their implants in their hand.
I think there is only one way to deal with these situations. Set it up like a 110m hurdles in front of you in your imagination and just jump one hurdle at a time. Eventually, in the end you will cross the finish line and if you're lucky you may even enter a period where it feels like you're swimming downhill.
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