Humility is always a good thing. It’s always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them. – Michael J. Fox
Humility was another important lesson. As a child, my understanding of humility was limited to platitudes and threats: “Don’t let this go to your head”; “A little humility is good for you”; and, “I’m going to teach you some humility.” That last one always meant trouble.
As a result, humility was not something I was anxious to learn about, let alone practice.
As I grew older, however, I learned that there was more to humility than humiliation. Once again, dentistry was a good teacher.
I discovered the difference between taking pride in doing my work well and thinking that my work was done well because I was doing it.
Whenever I made the mistake of thinking that I created the perfect crown or the perfect smile, the phone would ring.
A patient on the other end would say, “Doc, remember that new stuff you put on my front teeth to make them whiter? It’s turning green!” Or, “Doc, that crown you cemented on yesterday just fell off … I almost swallowed it.”
Dentistry was a humbling profession for me as a doctor, but I really did not understand humility until I became a patient. – Excerpt from “I’m Afraid.”
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