Another doctor day but I want to begin it on a positive note.

H/T Greg Uy for the idea.

The Buddha explains how to handle insult and maintain compassion:

One day Buddha was walking through a village. A very angry and rude young man came up and began insulting him. "You have no right teaching others," he shouted. "You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake."

Buddha was not upset by these insults. Instead he asked the young man "Tell me, if you buy a gift for someone, and that person does not take it, to whom does the gift belong?"

The man was surprised to be asked such a strange question and answered, "It would belong to me, because I bought the gift."

The Buddha smiled and said, "That is correct. And it is exactly the same with your anger. If you become angry with me and I do not get insulted, then you own the anger. You are then unhappy. All you have done is hurt yourself. For if you are right there is no need for anger- and if you are wrong, no excuse for it."

 
"If you want to stop hurting yourself, you must get rid of your anger and become loving instead. When you hate others, you yourself become unhappy. But when you love others, you can learn to love yourself." 

The young man listened closely to these wise words of the Buddha. "You are right, o Enlightened One, "he said. "Please teach me the path of love. I wish to become your follower."

The Buddha answered kindly, "I will teach anyone who truly wants to learn.  Come with me."

The Buddha led the young man to a beautiful bubbling stream and held his head under the water until the bubbles stopped. "Thus is is" said the Buddha to the rest of his followers "That this young man has lost his anger and become one with nature".

I believe this is a valuable lesson - I have tried to follow the deeper meaning of it all through my life - or the same meaning, but at deeper pools of water.