Success Through Failure

摘要

As surgeons, we have journeyed through undergraduate education, medical school, residency, and/or fellowships and have had a great deal of success in order to become who we are and what we do today. We strive for success and attempt to minimize failures. On a larger scale, society has taught us that failure is negative, to be mitigated and that we should work hard to avoid it. Even in our letter grading system which we are exposed to at an early age, F is the only letter that corresponds to the first letter of what it stands for-"Failure." Avoidance and prevention of getting a F, becomes ingrained in us and the negative connotation develops that failure is bad.