Archive for June 2007

How perfect are you?

Is there a conflict between the you who wants to be perfect and the ‘real you’?

How difficult is it for you to realise that life is not like a mechanical machine. However carefully you plan things something may get in the way. People don’t necessarily react in the way you might expect. Patients don’t always react to a certain treatment in the way another patient did in the past. How do you react to these unexpected events?

Have you ever considered how your desire or overwhelming need to be perfect as a doctor may be affecting the rest of your life? Does your concern about being perfect make you into a person who tends to procrastinate? Because instead of just getting on with what needs to be done you wait until that imagined time when you could do the task perfectly

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