Sticking your head up above the crowd - Looking Dr. James Gills Story

"Do not listen to success stories alone, listen to stories of how they failed and how they got there"

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Success often come with high prices to pay and who pays them own the good therein.

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Forbes and Bloomberg spend their entire time watching the growth of billionaires and millionaires and they catch our interest. Well, Forbes and Bloomberg are just doing their job. A lot of time, people want to hear about how much accomplishment successful people have made but they do not bother to ask about how smooth the road to attaining those success milestone look (No road to success is smooth except in dreams and paper).

No road to success is smooth except in dreams and paper

Have you tried building a chair where you have to first draw the design of the chair in a paper, or imagine how it will look like? I can say for sure that you will have the best design the world has ever seen. Amazing, now let’s get a hammer and nail and let’s start the construction. You will find out that in other to get something very close to perfection, you would have spent hours or maybe a day or two before you get it right. This also applies to so many companies as well as project, their plan, whitepaper, blueprint and so on are always captivating but attaining 90% of their set plan is always a story to tell.

I will be sharing a little about a person looking at both the ups and downs in his life as he attains success.

Dr. James Gills

“When you stick your head up above the crowd, somebody’s going to take a swing at it.”

Being an ophthalmologist, he is successful in his field and has done a lot of cataract and lens implantation surgeries. He is the founder of St. Luke’s Cataract and Laser Institute in Tarpon Spring, Florida. He is successful in his field as well as in other things which include sport. He is a philanthropist with a heart of gold.

Born in August 30, 1934, little Gills started his own company at the age of 13 where he made clutches for motor scooters, lawn mowers which he sold via mail-order to nearby countries. He got a B.A. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and furthered his studies to graduate from Duke University Medical School. He was conversant with Neurology but ended up studying Ophthalmology. He went on with his residency at Wilmer Ophthalmological institute at John Hopkins University in Maryland.

Gills was successful in his early years as an Ophthalmologist as he specialized in cataract surgery using intraocular lens implant thereby creating his own technique also, he was able to correct difficult cases of glaucoma.

He had his good times rolling but at some points fellow ophthalmologists started creating a scene about his use of intraocular lens implant, saying it is a premature procedure and could cause bleeding and other complications in patients. As a medical practitioner, critics like this could be very dangerous to a career. He was able to escape the heat and pressure by relocating from Clearwater to New Port Richey. In 1982, Gills started a cataract teaching foundation where he was able to assist thousands of curable blind residents in developing countries. As of today, Dr. Gills extraction technique is being used by thousands of ophthalmologist in the world.
In his field, Gills could barely sit idle as he had a lot to do, from seminars, to publishing. He has written more than 100 medical article and has co-authored several medical textbooks. Gills never sits down at his desk as he is always attending to patients.

It is no doubt that Dr. James P. Gills has made impact in the medical world, not forgetting his impact in the world of sports.

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Image from www.stlukeseye.com

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You can read more about Dr. James P. Gills from
https://www.stlukeseye.com
https://health.usnews.com/doctors/james-gills-181614