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The truth about not knowing what we're doing

Do you think it’s true?

Do you think it’s true, that nobody knows what they’re doing?

Are we all just waiting to be found out, or hoping that we won’t be the ones who are found out?

The more things change, the more they seem to relentlessly stay the same.

The people with the biggest ego and the more bravado are the ones that go the furthest until somebody pulls a rug from underneath their feet, because they don’t know enough.

Years ago, I decided I had to concentrate on surgery and implant surgery, because I didn’t know enough about anything and I thought that I could know enough about that to be “safe”.

The world has become so complex and is moving so fast, that I don’t see anyone who knows everything about that, let alone everything about everything else in my profession, or my craft.

It’s not because I am older, it’s because it’s more complex and things are so much faster and there is so much more to know.

Only by collaborating, honestly and openly and making people understand and making patients understand, that we cannot know everything, and we have to ask.

Only by doing this, will we be able to move on, we will be able to survive.

By Colin Campbell on 14/08/19 18:00