I’ve just completed a really difficult surgical case at the practice.
it’s the type of case you go into first thing in the morning and feel that you’ve prepared as well as you possibly can, for something that will be complex and then when you begin you get a greater degree of the complexity that you’re involved in.
It was two sides of the mouth. The first side was hard but the second side was extremely difficult (lower jaw, much risk, stressful).
Part way through the lower jaw I was thinking ‘why am I doing this’ and then quickly it’s replaced by the answer ‘because that is your job’.
The case finished off really well and the result (so far of course) is really good but it doesn’t detract from the fact that these things are difficult and emotionally draining and hard work.
The job of a specialist is not to seek out lots of easy work to knock off like a conveyor belt day after day, to have the most comfortable and financially rewarding life.
The job of a specialist is to walk the talk and to do the difficult stuff because the easy stuff is not the problems of the specialist.
(With years of experience sometimes some of the difficult stuff becomes easier stuff which you can then pass to people to help them grow).
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