I received an email from a friend and colleague on how to build mental toughness in our trainees. After hearing the case that spurred the question, I actually began to believe the problem is actually one of self-granted permission to act and the conflict between errors of commission and errors of omission.

Recommended Reading/Listening

* Combating omission errors through task analysis and good reminders

* Rick Body has a great post on the silliness of the interpretation that, "First, do no harm," should inspire passivity

* Casey Parker could not be restrained by words in the comment section so he recorded his response discussing the 2 modes of a part-time resuscitationist

Listen to the wee to understand what the frack I am talking about...