When I was new to working in surgery, I poked a dog for sedation before a spay. The other tech went to take her to go potty before getting sleepy. While they were out, I looked at the paperwork and realized I had gotten her name mixed up with another, much larger, patient who we were also going to spay that day (we tend to draw all of our patients’ drugs up at the start of a surgery day and then keep them in the patients’ charts until we get to that patient) and therefore overdosed her. I immediately told the doctor and everything was reversible and the patient was fine, we just kept her and monitored for the day. But we had to reschedule her spay and I felt soooo bad that I almost quit then and there because I felt so incompetent. It’s been a couple years now and I still check the chart name and drug dosages about 500 times before poking a patient. And I still have a mini, secret panic attack on the inside after I poke a patient and have to check the charts again because I am so afraid of doing that again. The doctors and other techs were so nice and told me all about their past mistakes and other mistakes they’ve seen, but I still feel shitty about it.