Success in dental practice : a few suggestions relative to the most approved methods of conducting a practice / by C. N. Johnson.

  • Johnson, Charles Nelson, 1860-1938.
Date:
[1913], [©1913]
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Credit: Success in dental practice : a few suggestions relative to the most approved methods of conducting a practice / by C. N. Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    and woe betide the sensitive youth who allows himself to be annoyed by her prattle. The ex- tent of injury she is able to work upon him is gauged solely by the nature of his attitude to- wards her. If he is irritated or chagrined or disturbed by her gossip, then he is to that degree injured; but that she can ever do him serious harm aside from this has never yet been demon- strated. One of the first things a young dentist should do in going to a strange town is to re- solve to live an upright, manly life entirely above reproach, and then to pay no attention to the brigade of petty gossip-mongers. If he does this they will soon let him alone. The other objection to a small town is the professional isolation. The constant association of men of his own calling is really of the greatest importance to a young man in the development of a well-rounded professional life, and lacking this he is too often inclined to drift away from high professional ideals and to lose the inspira- tion which comes only from contact with the thinking men of his profession. In the city he has the advantage of frequent society meetings, and this is a great source of help to him at a