When I attended University of Ottawa in Ontario many years ago, we had a guest lecturer in anatomy (who happened to be the author of our textbook), who quoted G.K. Chesterton: “When a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly.” At the time, I probably didn’t know what it meant, but now I live by that saying. As a rural physician for more than 3 decades, I have done many things poorly, but I hope they were all worth doing. It’s great to have been freed from the tyranny of perfection! Thanks for the practical support.1
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