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the ringing of the telephone. I knew it meant another critical decision to be
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. Often, after I had told Walt or Larry what to do in a particular
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, I’d have trouble getting back to sleep. I’d
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all the facts of the case and, often, wonder
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I had made a poor decision. More than once at two or three in the
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, after lying awake for an hour, I’d get out of
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, dress and drive to the hospital to see the patient myself. It was the only
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I could find the
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of mind I needed to relax.
Now, in the last month of my residency,
was no longer a problem. Sometimes I still couldn’t be sure of my decision, but I had learned to
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this as a constant problem for a surgeon. I knew that with my knowledge and experience, any decision I’d made was bound to be a
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one. It was a nice feeling.
This all sounds conceited(自负的) and I guess it is —
a surgeon needs conceit. He needs it to encourage him in trying moments when he’s bothered by the
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and uncertainties that are part of the practice of medicine. He has to feel that he’s as good as and probably better than any other surgeon in the world. Call it conceit — call it self-confidence; whatever it was, I had it.
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