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Some mistakes we make can feel impossible to forget.

Stephen Currachek hasn't let go of a mistake he made more than 40 years ago.

I mean, we're talking about an event in 1979 and I'm still ashamed.

At the time he was a medical resident and he gave a patient the wrong dose of penicillin.

And as a consequence, that elderly man had a seizure.

And the seizure interfered with his breathing,

and so he ended up on a ventilator.

When doctors met up for rounds that morning to talk about the patients in their care,

basically I hit it.

He didn't explain why the patient was now on a ventilator. Stephen remembers that his senior doctor pulled him aside.

And said, Stephen, Stephen I know you know what happened I said yes and I

I'm terribly sorry and I I feel badly he said well I don't want you to worry too much about it because it's the

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