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Old Thu Dec 13, 2007, 06:12pm
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Originally Posted by tomegun
So a new intern walks up to a group of doctors who've performed various levels of surgery and says, "Sometimes we, as doctors, should..." By the time he is finished with the sentence, the surgeons have all walked away shaking their heads.
Or, as very experienced, wise and humane people they remember their first few years, listen to the content and overlook the rather presumptuous tone, and smile condescendingly, knowing that he's right in what he says, even if it implies an authority not necessarily there. Knowing he'll develop a more humble tone as time goes along.

I mean what mike said isn't totally wrong, is it? We do overthink things sometimes, don't we?
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