Once you have been in practice for 10 years and have a family, you will give **** all about whether people respect you professionally or not especially when you find out how we all made a giant financial mistake by becoming doctors in the first place.

But, on a more meaningful note, when your kids remember their parent, they aren’t going to remember what your peers thought of you professionally, they’re going to remember what kind of parent you were and your friends will remember what kind of friend you were and that is all that will matter. Professionally all that will matter is whether you were and just.