A year or so ago I was invited by an Italian dentist to spend a day with him in his practice and to attend a two-day seminar, which he was presenting. The location, in the mountains near to Lake Como and the Swiss border, was enough to persuade me to accept. However I was to find out that the professional aspects of the trip were not only most invigorating but that they would also cause me to look back with concern to my own career. Had I done as well for my patients, my family and myself as I could have done?