distractors: confidence conceit solutions
sentence: This all sounds conceited and I guess it is --  but  a surgeon needs conceit.He needs it to encourage him in trying moments when he's bothered by the  [MASK]  and uncertainties that are part of the practice of medicine.He has to feel that he's as good as and probably better than any other surgeon in the world.Call it conceit -- call it self-confidence; whatever it was, I had it.