SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “One error and someone's life is on me”, including the private rule underneath it: Any error is proof I shouldn't be trusted with patients—and carrying it alone is the sentence. The system event becomes your private verdict, and hiding it feels safer than reporting it because you've already judged yourself more harshly…
QUIET
“One error and someone's life is on me” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “What I'm carrying has a name—second victim—and the documented way through it is talking, not hiding. I debrief this with someone who was there.”
PRESENT
“One error and someone's life is on me” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “The 3 a.m. courtroom is not a review process. I take the case to a real one: I report it, I ask what the system missed.”
ACTIVE
“One error and someone's life is on me” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Write down one incident you're replaying at night and one person in your institution—supervisor, mentor, peer, employee assistance—you could tell about it. Do not send it yet; just name the person.
DOMINANT
Right now, “One error and someone's life is on me” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Write down one incident you're replaying at night and one person in your institution—supervisor, mentor, peer, employee assistance—you could tell about it. Do not send it yet; just name the person.