Dr. Anthony Youn

No, that's awesome.

Yeah.

I mean, it's, it's baby steps.

You know, I remember back, you know, now it's like I've, you start from literally doing the tiniest little procedures.

I remember the first time I did a spinal tap on a little baby and I was so nervous as a medical student, but the,

But the attending pediatrician was just so gentle and reassuring that you learn these things of how to help teach.

And I think the big thing a lot of surgeons forget

is that we were once at that beginning stage too.

So occasionally I'll have residents come work with me and stuff like that.

And I think a lot of surgeons forget what it was like when you were at the bottom of the totem pole.

And my third book was called Playing God, and it's this idea that surgeons have of this God complex where they feel that they are just so superior sometimes to everybody else because they lose track of where they started.

For me, I look at that medical student that was like,

so excited to do a spinal tap and then like so nervous because here's this little kid, this little baby, you know, all the way up to now where it's like, yeah, I've had people say thank you for saving my life.

And, you know, I've cut people's skin open and pull it.

It's like when you think about it, like how arrogant do you have to be to think that you can cut somebody open, especially in plastic surgery, where they're completely healthy and you make them unhealthy for a period of time, expecting that they're going to be healthy again.

And that that's how you make your living.

Like how arrogant does it have to be?

It can be.

Well, it's like I said earlier, this idea of autojuvenation.

It's your body has innate regenerative abilities to rejuvenate itself.