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Carrying on from my previous blog on imposter syndrome, I have been riddled with it this year particularly. 

I have watched (or so it seemed) implants fall out of my patients left, right and centre and I felt like I have had one of the worse years I have ever had.

I am privileged though because I work with Dr Kath Hare who runs our research projects and department at the practice.

She can count my numbers objectively in a way that I cannot possibly do because, to her, there is no emotion attached.

10 days ago I asked her to look into my numbers because I was worried that my focus on everything else was leading to a lack of focus on surgery and causing problems.

What I have done this year though is mentored more people than ever before and assisted them and allowed their implants to fall into my numbers, where it was only ever me before.

Kath was insistent that they were removed from the numbers, she was also insistent that I remove a patient who has had more than one failure as a cluster but I refuse to allow that. In the end, so far  this year she came up with a figure of 2.3% early failure, which is almost the same as every other year.

I said yesterday that the answer to imposter syndrome was collaboration.

It is probably collaboration mixed with objective thinking.

Blog Post Number- 2211