I like to think I'm a good med student - I do well in exams, I work hard, I help out as much as I can on the wards, including doing stuff that doesn't contribute much to my learning. Junior staff have been really appreciative of my help. I'm also pretty organised in my day to day life usually, I have to be to make sure I have enough money to live and eat properly etc.
But I do make stupid mistakes sometimes, like I forgot to label a patient's blood samples before sending them to the lab and had to redo them (luckily the patient was ok with it). In the last 2 weeks I've left my smartcard in ward computers twice (pretty bad for data safety), left a pair of gloves on the side that should have been binned (worn but not dirty as such), 'lost' my phone for a morning...
I don't know if there's an answer, but how can I get better at life so I don't make so many stupid mistakes like this? Right now maybe it's not such a big deal (although I do feel guilty), but I worry that when I'm a doctor and e.g. prescribing I might accidentally kill someone.