Humility will get you further than ego or pride in your career as a surgeon

Dani Stanbouly; Sung-Kiang Chuang

doi:10.1016/j.jormas.2021.10.004

Humility will get you further than ego or pride in your career as a surgeon

J Stomatol Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2022 Jun;123(3):269-270. doi: 10.1016/j.jormas.2021.10.004. Epub 2021 Oct 10.

Authors

Dani Stanbouly¹, Sung-Kiang Chuang²

Affiliations

¹ Dental Student, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Clinical Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Private Practice, Brockton Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Inc, USA; Attending, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Brockton, MA, USA; Visiting Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University, School of Dentistry, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

PMID: 34644587
DOI: 10.1016/j.jormas.2021.10.004

Abstract

Surgeons exhibit disproportionately higher levels of arrogance, narcissism, and social apathy relative to other healthcare providers. Pride, when cut loose, handicaps the individual from relating and empathizing with others and blinds him/her from their flaws and shortcomings, deceptively leading to their inevitable downfall. An untamed ego dwells on pride and has the potential for serious damage to the person who harbors it and those that he/she interacts with those. An untamed ego reinforces a fixed mindset, which is grounded on talent, within the individual rather than a growth mindset, which is grounded on practice.

Keywords: Ego; Growth mindset; Pride.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Ego*
Female
Humans
Male
Narcissism
Surgeons*